92% schools in country are non-RTE Act compliant: Activists Upping the ante against the non-implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, activists on the eve of 8th anniversary of the enactment (April 1) have given a call to make this a huge electoral issue in the next year’s (2019) Lok Sabha (Parliament) election. At …
By Ambarish Rai (Nationally well-known RTE activist and National Convenor of RTE Forum) This government has taken several counterproductive steps to weaken Right to Education Act, which we got after so many struggles. What is worse, it is completely silent on it. All it did was to extend the deadline for trained teachers until 2019. As per our (RTE Forum …
Well a child may ask: Where are basic facilities in my school? Where are my teachers? Why my teachers are not able to help me? Will I be failed? To answer these questions, one has to really to evaluate the implementation of Right to Education Act, 2009. And alas, it is a patchy story of ‘failure’. On March 30, RTE …
No-detention Policy’ may be diluted and capped at class V instead of class VIII at present Deadline for Training of untrained teachers may get five year extension till 2020 Notwithstanding evidence on good side of ‘no detention policy’ and counsel from National Council of Educational Research & Training (NCERT), the union ministry of human resources development is keen to amend …
IN INDIAN context, whereas all governments have been pledging and working to strengthen the education policies for the terms of their power, there has been a rare evidence of these policies being translated into practice. On the positive side, over the last six decades, there has been considerable expansion in educational facilities all over the country at all levels. But …
Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 or popularly RTE Act entered into its 7th year of enactment on April 1. However, the historic Act largely continues to remain unimplemented and ‘forgotten’ ON 31 MARCH 2016, India marked six years of the coming into force of the Right to Education. And those closely monitoring its progress and journey …
