The level of commitment in enforcing RTE seems questionable with a large number of complaints received by the NationalCommission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) remaining unresolved. Figures obtained from NCPCR through an RTI filed by an activist show that only 100 of 1,761 complaints made between April 1, 2011 and March 16, 2012 have been resolved by NCPCR. The record for 2011-12-only 5.6% cases resolved-is especially poor considering in...
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RTE Act: Two years on, there's still a long way to go by Liffy Thomas
Sunday marked the completion of two years since the landmark Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act came into force. Although Tamil Nadu initially took time to come out with its draft rules before it notified them in November 2011, the School Education Department, over the last couple of months, has taken up a number of initiatives to raise awareness of the RTE Act. One such attempt was setting up...
More »West Bengal frames Right to Education rules-Shiv Sahay Singh
Two years after they were implemented in rest of India Nearly two years after the legislation was implemented in the rest of the country on April 1, 2010, the West Bengal Government has now framed rules for implementing the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009. In keeping with the provisions of the Act, the age of admissions to Class I across the State has been raised from the...
More »‘Focus on nutrition of children with HIV’: child rights commission by Sonal Matharu
National AIDS Control Programme urged to move beyond medicine-centric approach The government programmes for children suffering from HIV/AIDS should move from medicine-centric approach to include nutrition and preventive care, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has recommended. In its recently released report ‘Rights and entitlements of children affected and infected by HIV/AIDS 2010-11’, the organisation also advocated provisions for issuing BPL cards to children who have lost their...
More »Rights council wants scolding ban in schools by Ananya Sengupta
Teachers, forget the word scold if you want to steer clear of trouble — or even jail. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has said no teacher can discriminate or mentally abuse a child based on his/her physical disability, caste, colour, gender or religion. Its new guidelines, which have to be ratified by the human resource development ministry, also forbid teachers from using sarcasm, humiliating adjectives, ridicule based on a...
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