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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | With consensus eluding Centre and states, RTE likely to be a dud law by Maitreyee Boruah

With consensus eluding Centre and states, RTE likely to be a dud law by Maitreyee Boruah

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published Published on Nov 4, 2010   modified Modified on Nov 4, 2010


With a battle already brewing between central and state governments over the share of financial liabilities to implement the much-debated Right to Education (RTE) Act, activists fear that such a tussle would be a deadly blow to the law itself.

While Union human resource development minister Kapil Sibal has strictly asked all the states to mobilise funds to implement the Act, most of the state governments, including Karnataka have expressed their helplessness to organise such huge funds.

“It’s beyond our understanding as to why both the state and central governments are washing their hands off the financial help to implement the Act. Blame games would not serve the purpose of the Act,” said Nagasimha G Rao, education rights activist and member of Campaign Against Child Labour.

Sources in the education department said that initially, about Rs2,000 crore would be needed to implement the Act in Karnataka.

“We don’t think such an amount would be available in the near future,” said a senior official in the education department.

Primary and secondary education minister Vishveshwar Hegde Kageri had on Tuesday expressed his doubts on the proper implementation of the Act due to fund constraints. The minister expressed his apprehension on the state’s inability to fund the Act at a seminar organised by Sarva Shiksha Abhiyana.

During his last visit to Bangalore in September, Sibal had put the onus of implementing the RTE Act on the states. He had said that education was a state subject and respective state governments should ensure proper implementation of the Act.

“In the tussle between the state and central governments, it’s the poor children of the country who will suffer the most, as they are the beneficiaries of the RTE act. Once again, our leaders have shown that nobody is interested in providing free and compulsory education to underprivileged children,” said another education rights activist.

Padmini, who has been working in the field of child rights for more than five decades, criticised the approach of both the state and centre on the Act. “Education has always been a low priority sector for the politicians. The states and centre should come to a consensus on the issue and should not hamper the implementation of the Act by giving lame excuses that they don’t have enough funds,” said Padmini.


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