All States and Union Territories have been asked to come out with a notification within a month, in a PIL filed by the advocate Poulomi Pavini Shukla, in four weeks, recognising orphaned children as a disadvantaged group who can be covered under 25 percent reservation in private unaided educational institutions under Section 12(1) (c) of the Right to Education (RTE) Act. Another bench, headed by Justices B. V. Nagarathna and K. V. Viswanathan, has also directed an overall survey to be conducted of children who have been brought under the RTE Act as orphaned along with those who have been refused admission- with reasons being recorded. In the process of this data collection, states are to make sure that orphans are placed in neighbourhood schools as soon as possible and who deserve them. It has also been suggested that the Centre take into consideration, involving orphans as a distinct population in the national census of 2027 to enhance data-based decision-making on the consistently unrepresented group of the country.