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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Goa, Karnataka give RTE rules notification a miss-Aarti Dhar

Goa, Karnataka give RTE rules notification a miss-Aarti Dhar

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published Published on Apr 2, 2012   modified Modified on Apr 2, 2012

Two years after the Centre notified the Right of the Children to Free and Compulsory Act, 2009, which guarantees free education to children aged 6-14 years, Karnataka and Goa are yet to notify the rules.

“Last year this time, only 15 States notified the RTE rules. Today, this number has increased to 21. The Ministry will continue to follow up with these States as notification would entitle them to funds from the Centre,” Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said at a press conference here on Saturday to mark the two years of the Act.

Describing access to school as a major achievement in these two years, Mr. Sibal said the Centre had fulfilled its commitment, and now it was for the States to ensure that the Act was efficiently implemented. “The results of the Act will be visible in five years.”

Similarly, last year 11 States notified the State Commissions for Protection of Child Rights, as enshrined in the Act, but now the number went up to 21, he said, and an advisory was issued to all the States to institute a grievance redress mechanism to address violations of the Act. To improve the quality of primary education, 31 States notified the academic authority under Section 29 of the Act, against 20 last year. “This is significant because the academic authority is responsible for ensuring that the curriculum and the evaluation procedure are in accordance with constitutional values and the child-centred principles enunciated in the Act,” Mr. Sibal said. Of late, there had been much media debate on the quality of learning — especially when the ASER report was published. Another study undertaken by the ASER Centre, ‘Inside Primary Schools,' pointed out that learning materials created by the States were often two notches higher than the age-appropriate level.

Most States have issued circulars and notifications to reiterate the child-centred provisions of the Act, including those prohibiting corporal punishment, detention, expulsion and doing away with the Board examinations for Class V and VIII.

The enrolment indictors showed that there was a decline in the annual average dropout rate from 9.1 per cent in 2009-10 to 6.9 per cent in 2010-11. There was a more than five per cent decline in Bihar (7.06 per cent), Jharkhand (5.30 per cent), Nagaland (6.23 per cent) and Uttar Pradesh (5.65 per cent). But, in Mizoram and Haryana, the rate increased, while the percentage of girl enrolment to the total enrolment at the primary and upper primary levels remained steady.

The Centre sanctioned six lakh posts of teachers under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan to maintain the student-teacher ratio at 30:1. But 43 per cent of the schools had a ratio of greater than the prescribed norm at the national level, while 33 per cent at the upper primary level were behind the norm.

As for infrastructure, close to five lakh classrooms were sanctioned by the Centre, and the outlay for the RTE-SSA programme has been doubled from Rs. 13,100 crore during 2009-10 to Rs. 25,555 crore in 2012-13.

The Hindu, 1 April, 2012, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article3267812.ece


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