Minority quota poser to 4 top Mumbai schools

MUMBAI: Four prominent Mumbai schools—St Mary's, St Xavier's, Christ Church and Holy Family—have been accused of violating rules on filling up the minority quota in their institutions by the government.

"Educational institutes with religious or linguistic minority status and taking financial assistance from the state government have to give 50% of the total seats to the minority communities they represent. But, in case of St Mary's School, Mazgaon, merely 15% students from the minority community got admission. The information has been sought through the RTI Act. St Xavier's and Christ Church (in south Mumbai) and Holy Family in the western suburbs have indulged in a similar violation," said minorities minister Arif Naseem Khan. "We have issued showcause notices asking them why the government should not withdraw the minority status for violation of the norms."

St Mary's High School principal Father Baptist Pinto and Christ Church principal Carl Laurie said they would comment only after getting a copy of the notice. Holy Family principal Father Francis Swamy was not available for comment.