-The Hindu “Hectic lobbying by private interests in education is responsible for Karnataka being a laggard among Indian States in implementing the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act,” said a senior government official on Thursday. Karnataka and Goa are the only States that are yet to notify rules that will enforce the legislation that guarantees education as a fundamental right to all children aged between six and...

-DNA While the Supreme Court of India's recent judgement to implement the Right to Education (RTE) Act has put private Schools in a quandary, Gujarat government too is facing logistic, administrative and as social problems in execution of this Act. State education minister Ramanlal Vora on Wednesday spoke on these issues, elaborating that they are not only administrative but social too. A major hindrance in implementation of RTE Act is sharing of expenses...

-Express News Service Chandigarh: Making it clear that the Right to Education (RTE) Act will have an overriding effect on all other regulations on the reservation of seats for the economically weaker sections (EWS), the Punjab and Haryana High Court has told the private Schools to comply with the RTE Act and the latest Supreme Court judgment on the Act. Disposing of a bunch of petitions filed by private Schools challenging various...

The Supreme Court in its verdict on the constitutionality of the Right to Education Act in relation to the reservation of seats for Economically Weaker Section [EWS] and socially disadvantaged [SD] children has rightly upheld the principle of integration. It is hard to see how it could have been any other way. In fact, the arguments against segregation and in favour of diversity in Schools have long been settled in...

-Express News Service Ahmedabad: Flouting rules under Right to Education (RTE) Act, private Schools in the city are still following the practice of conducting interviews of children as well as their parents during admissions to entry-level classes. While the majority of private Schools have already completed their admissions for the entry-level classes (nursery to kindergarten), a few are still accepting the forms. Though the Schools did not admit they were conducted interviews, they...