‘No Aadhaar Card, No School Education in Telangana’
B. Pradeep | 19 February 2025 | The Hindu
Government school headmasters in Hyderabad have been denying admissions to students if they lack an Aadhaar card. Several parents, whether poor, single, divorced or migrated to the city for livelihood, were denied enrolment of their children because they did not have the Aadhaar credentials.
These statements are not allegations but the experiences of several teachers who had tried all means to enrol the children, but were eventually rejected by the school heads. But now, for the first time these teachers expressed it without fear or hesitation on a public platform and the Telangana Education Commission (TEC) that was conducting the public hearing, recorded it…