-The Economic Times As the Right to Education completed two years, human resource development minister Kapil Sibal said that it was now the responsibility of state governments to deliver on the promise of universal elementary education. "Whatever provisions that have been made in RTE these have to be implemented. Plans for it are completely ready so that they can be implemented after two years. I believe that this is a great accomplishment...
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Schools in limbo over RTE clause-Yogita Rao
With the decision on 25% reservation for underprivileged students in all schools, including private and unaided ones, pending in the Supreme Court, city schools are finding it difficult to keep seats vacant. Most schools have completed the admission process. Some have managed to keep 10% seats vacant, in case the order comes out before the session begins. This would be the third consecutive year, when this clause under theRight to Free...
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 »Minorities panel to examine nursery admission anomaly by Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar & Bindu Shajan Perappadan
Taking cognizance of the report published by The Hindu on Monday indicating low Muslim representation in this year's admission to nursery classes in Delhi's private schools, the National Commission for Minorities has said that it will urgently look into the matter and take action. National Commission for Minorities chairman Wajahat Habibullah said: “We have got a copy of the letter submitted to Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on the issue and...
More »In Delhi's nursery classes, Muslim children are a rarity-Bindu Shajan Perappadan Rana Siddiqui Zaman
-The Hindu Low Muslim representation appears to be a striking feature of this year's admissions to nursery classes in Delhi's private schools. Of 92 schools which provided some sort of information on their websites, as many as 20 (or their branches) admitted no Muslim child while 17 admitted only one Muslim child each. While the sketchy nature of available data – with only a few schools willing to reveal the numbers of...
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