Compute the reimbursement claim for RTE places at your state’s notified per-child rate, pro-rated for part-year enrolment, and — the figure schools most need — the shortfall between that rate and your own per-child fee, which the school absorbs.
Per-child rates are notified per state and revised, and several states reimburse in arrears across more than one financial year.
The claim is a multiplication. The number that matters for a budget is the other one: the difference between what the state reimburses and what the place actually costs the school, because that difference is a cost and not a receivable.
A claim filed in one financial year and settled in the next is normal in several states. A school that books the claim as collected on the day it files will report a collection rate it cannot substantiate, and will discover the gap when the auditor reconciles receipts to the bank.
The calculator tracks claimed and received separately for that reason. The outstanding figure is the one to carry in a cash-flow projection.
Where the notified rate is ₹11,000 and the school’s own fee is ₹24,000, each RTE place costs the school ₹13,000 a year. That is a real cost of a legal obligation and it belongs in the budget as one. Schools that record only the claim consistently understate what the places cost them, and then cannot explain the gap at year end.
Phrased the way they arrive, answered so each one stands on its own.
It is notified per state and revised, so there is no single figure. Enter your own state’s current notified rate.
Usually, and the calculator pro-rates by months enrolled. Confirm your state’s method, which may count differently.
No. That is the point of the provision — an RTE place is free to the family, and the shortfall is borne by the school against the state’s reimbursement.
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