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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | RTE delay rap on Bengal by Basant Kumar Mohanty

RTE delay rap on Bengal by Basant Kumar Mohanty

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published Published on Jan 27, 2012   modified Modified on Jan 27, 2012

The Centre is irked by the lackadaisical attitude of Bengal, Gujarat, Karnataka and Goa in notifying rules under the Right to Education act even two years after its enforcement.

The Union HRD ministry has decided to tick off the states for the delay in notifying the rules, key to implementing the RTE law that provides for free and compulsory education to children between six and 14 years.

Kapil Sibal will next week write to the chief ministers of Bengal, Karnataka and Gujarat, asking them to notify the rules soon. But he will not write to Goa as the model code of conduct is in place for the Assembly elections.

“The Centre is unhappy at the delay in notification of rules in the four states. The HRD minister will ask the chief ministers to take steps soon,” a source said.

The RTE act came into force on April 1, 2010. The Centre then drew up model rules and asked the states to prepare their own along the same lines and notify them.

Under the RTE law, there has to be a school in every neighbourhood to help children get free education. But the act does not define the limit of a neighbourhood. The states are supposed to define such limits in their rules.

Each state is supposed to conduct a survey of neighbourhoods and fix the requirement for new schools. On the basis of the states’ proposals, the Centre would release funds.

The RTE act provides for reserving up to 25 per cent seats in private schools for economically backward students. But the states will reimburse the school’s expenses according to per-child rates laid down in the rules.

“Without the rules, 50 per cent of the provisions of the law cannot be implemented. It is very important for the remaining states to notify the rules,” said Ashok Agrawal, a lawyer who has filed a number of cases against RTE law violations in Delhi.

The Centre has already stopped grants to errant states for opening new schools.

“Unless we know the exact requirement of new schools, how will the states be provided funds? The states have to define the neighbourhood limit and conduct a survey to know the requirement,” an official said.

The implementation of the law is likely to be further affected as the HRD ministry has not got grants under the supplementary budget in 2011-12.

“The ministry has not got funds under the supplementary budget…. We think the construction of new schools and additional infrastructure in existing schools will be affected,” the official said.

The budgetary allocation for Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, the main programme for implementing the RTE law, was Rs 21,000 crore in 2011-12. The ministry has released 90 per cent of this amount to the states. It had asked for an additional Rs 5,000 crore under the supplementary budget.

Shyama Chona, a former principal of DPS R.K. Puram, said: “The quality of elementary education is still a major concern. This has been reflected in the recent Annual Status of Education Report. A lot has to be done for proper implementation of the law.”


The Telegraph, 25 January, 2012, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120126/jsp/nation/story_15055192.jsp


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