School admission thru lottery postponed

Student enrolment from class 1-9 in government secondary schools of the country via lottery has been suspended due to a pending writ petition in the High Court (HC).

The Department of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) confirmed the matter via an official notice issued Tuesday night

Students were set to be selected for admissions through this online lottery on Wednesday.

Prior to the pandemic situation in the country, only class-1 students were admitted in the government schools via admission lottery.

But this time due to the Coronavirus situation in the country, students of all classes between one to nine are being enrolled in schools under the education ministry trough this system.

Schools have already concluded the online application submission phase for the student enrollments and the lottery was supposed to be held on Wednesday to choose the lucky few from all the bunch who applied