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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Focus on RTE by Vatsala Shrangi

Focus on RTE by Vatsala Shrangi

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published Published on Mar 5, 2012   modified Modified on Mar 5, 2012
-The Times of India

The 12th Five-Year Plan, which has been delayed and likely to be released in April, is going to focus on the Right to Education (RTE) Act this time. Apart from RTE, the other key areas will include higher education and the setting up of central universities. 

"The Five-Year Plan is still in its drafting stage. The two sectors - education and health - will be the focus this year. Under education, implementation of RTE, which had been allocated around rupees two lakh and thirty one thousand crore for the last five years, will be a priority. This means, approximately, around Rs 45-50,000 crore will be spent on its implementation annually, which is a big amount and has to be substantiated," says Mamta Verma, director, media, HRD, Press Information Bureau. 

CHALLENGES 

The concern for RTE is understandable. According to the Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) 2011, private school enrolment is increasing in most states despite RTE. Since RTE came into force in 2010, the two major obstacles have been availability of teachers and setting up of neighbourhood schools. There is a shortage of nearly five lakh teachers while about three lakh teachers, teaching at the elementary level, are untrained. 

As per the RTE roadmap, neighbourhood schools are to be established and improved infrastructure to be ensured as per the pupil-teacher ratio (one teacher: 30 children) - both by March 2013. The provision for training untrained teachers is to be met by 2015. 

According to the annual report 2010-11 (MHRD), the provisions of RTE are being implemented through Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA).


The Times of India, 5 March, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Focus-on-RTE/articleshow/12141774.cms


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