Many corporate schools continue to flout the recent orders of the AP State Human Rights Commission imposing a ban on entrance tests for admissions.

While some corporate schools had cancelled their "scholarship tests" on February 13 following the orders of the APSHRC and the stern warning issued by the government, other schools are coming up with fresh notifications for conducting these tests. For instance, an educational institution, which has several branches in all the major cities across the state, has issued a notification on February 20 inviting appli cations from students to appear for their "scholarship test" to be held on March 6.

It even announced prizes like DVD players, cameras, and motor bikes to attract children and lure their parents.  Following this, some NGOs approached the officials of the school education department and lodged complaints against the institu tion for widely publicising their scholarship test in the media for the last one week.

They demanded the implementation of APSHRC orders and for the group to be "derecognised" for openly flouting the orders issued by the department against conducting any kind of entrance tests for admissions in schools.

The NGOs pointed out that admission tests were banned even under the Right to Education Act (RTE) which came into force from April 1, 2010 across the country.
"We have approached the principal secretary of secondary education and have submitted a representation to initiate action against the institution for issuing a notification to conduct scholar ship tests despite APSHRC issuing orders against admission tests on February 13. We are also planning to move the AP High Court over the issue," said Mr Achyuta Rao, the president of the NGO, AP Bala Sangham, which had moved APSHRC against admission tests.

The principal secretary of secondary education, Mr D.Sambasiva Rao, said that orders had been issued to the commissioner and director of school education for implementing the APSHRC orders and to ensure that none of the schools conducted any kind of tests for admissions. He said guilty schools would have to face "derecognition" if they went ahead with admission tests.