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No reservation in pvt schools for poor students this year by Sayli Udas Mankikar

The state is still dithering over the implementation of one of the RTE Act’s clauses, which calls for the reservation of 25% of the seats in private schools for students from the economically weaker sections of society. The provision may not get implemented for the next academic year (2012-13).  In a written reply to the legislative council, education minister Rajendra Darda has said that the state government was in the process...

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Right To Education clauses Act are being violated: Child Rights and You

-The Times of India   Two years after the implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, a grassroots-level survey conducted across several states by Child Rights and You (CRY) - an umbrella organisation of over 30 non-governmental organisations - indicated that providing free and compulsory education to all under this legislation continued to remain a big challenge. The Act also known as the RTE Act completed two...

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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...

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3 years of RTI in J&K-Dr Raja Muzaffar Bhat

Today is 20th March and it was this day in 2009 when the new form of Right to Information Act (RTI Act) was enacted in J&K by Omar Abdullah led Government soon after coming to power. Prior to 2009 we had an RTI law passed by PDP Congress coalition Government headed by Mufti Mohammad Syeed in 2004 (J&K RTI Act 2004). The 2004 version of RTI Act was much weaker...

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State to pay private schools for BPL admissions by Rageshri Ganguly

The school education department is likely to reimburse Rs 2,607 per child to the private schools of the state for admitting the BPL (below poverty line) children under the Right to Education (RTE) Act. Orders in this regard are expected to be released soon, school education department sources informed.  The RTE Act came into effect in the state on March 26, 2011. In the last session almost 1.5 lakh students were...

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