George Varghese Akhila M Akhila Prabhakaran Aleena R Amitha Raghunathan ( Physical Science ) The right to education is legally guaranteed for all without any discrimination.
States have the obligation to protect, respect and
fulfill the right to education.
There are ways to hold states accountable for
violations or deprivations of the right to education. Today the right to education is still denied to millions around the world.
A rough version of the draft was first
prepared in the year 2005 and was met with a lot of criticism. “The RTE act is the first legislation in the world that puts the responsibility of ensuring enrolment attendance and completion on the government. It is the parent’s responsibility to send the childern to schools in the US and other countries.”
- Sam Carlson ( The World Bank
education specialist for India) RTE act comes under Article 21-A inserted in fundamental right as per 86th constitutional amendment,2002. Right of children to free and compulsory education Act (RTE) enacted by the parliament on 4 August 2009. came into force on 1 April 2010. “The state shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of 6 to 14 years in such a manner as the state may, by law, determine.” Free education is defined as freedom from liability to pay any fee to the school and such of the expences as may be likely to prevent the child from participating in and completing elementary education. Compulsory education defined as the obligation of the state to take all necessary steps to ensure that every child participates in,and completes elementary education. 1. RTE Act provides to every child of the age of 6 to 14 years the right to free and compulsory education in a neighbourhood school till the completion of elementary education.
2. It specifies the duties and responsibilities of
appropriate governments,local authority and parents in providing free and compulsory education. 3. It lays down the norms and standards to pupil teacher ratios, infrastructure, working days and teacher working hours.
4. It provides for rational deployment of teachers by
ensuring that the specified pupil teacher ratio is maintained for each school.
5. It provides for appointment of appropriately
trained teachers, ie; teachers with the requisite entry and academic qualification. 6. It provides for development of curriculum in consonance with the values enshrined in the constitution. 7. A child who completes elementary education shall be awarded a certificate. 8. It has opened the doors of private schools, by making 25% of the seats reserved for the children belonging to the backward class and economically backward sections. 9. The act bans corporal punishment. 10. It bans the screening procedure of children for giving admission. No child's admission can be rejected on the basis of unavailability of the required documents.
11. It makes provisions for non-admitted child to be
admitted to an age appropriate class.
12. It prohibits physical punishment and mental
harassment, screening procedure for admission of children, capitation fee, private tuition by teachers and running of schools without recognition. Education in the Indian constitution is a concurrent issue and both centre and states can legislate on the issue. The act lays down specific responsibilities for the centre, state and local bodies for its implementation. Ignorance among teachers and guardians about the provisions of RTE Act. Development of special training programmes. Preparation of relevant teaching learning materials. Shortage of teachers. Need for suitable infrastructure modifications.
Need for organising programmes for
community awareness and attitude change in order to make school for all children. Landmark act that ensure education for every child.
Take education as first agenda for nation
transformation.
Create legally protected environment for
education.
Create greate impact on improving literacy rate.
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