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The Right to Learn

-Economic and Political Weekly Two years after the Right to Education Act, the government needs to focus on quality. Two years is perhaps too short a period in which to assess how effective the groundbreaking Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 (RTE), which came into effect on 1 April 2010, has been in raising standards of education in a country as diverse as India. The very fact that...

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Right to Education Act burden will not be passed on to students: Kapil Sibal

-The Times of India   After the Supreme Court this week upheld the constitutional validity of Right to Education Act, the government on Sunday allayed fears and dismissed suggestions that the burden which private schools will have to bear to implement the law will be passed on to students. The RTE Act mandates schools to provide free education to 25% of students from economically weaker sections between 6 to 14 years of age. "I...

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RTE burden won't be passed on to students: Sibal

-The Hindustan Times   With the Supreme Court upholding the constitutional validity of Right to Education Act, the government today dismissed suggestions that the burden which private schools will have to bear to implement it will be passed on to the students. The RTE Act mandates the schools to provide free education upto 25 per cent of the students from economic weaker section between 6 to 14 years of age.   "I do not...

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The joke

-The Indian Express   By the ferocity of her reaction to a weak cartoon, Mamata Banerjee proves her detractors right Mamata Banerjee has made political satire redundant. Her exaggerated, distorted reaction to a cartoon about herself makes her look like a tinpot tyrant. Was the cartoon defamatory? Only to the extent that any political cartoon is — it referenced Satyajit Ray’s detective classic Sonar Kella, and showed Mamata Banerjee and Mukul Roy making...

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Delhi violates RTE clause, delays providing books to 18 lakh children-Shonali Ghosal

Delhi HC seeks explanation for failure to distribute 1.2 crore free books in MCD and government schools It is the season for Delhi’s Right to Education (RTE) violations to come tumbling out, one after the other. Just two weeks after CRY’s status report on the implementation of RTE in Delhi, which exposed several irregularities, there are still more pouring out. The Delhi High Court on Friday lashed out at the Delhi...

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