On November 11, 2011, a big campaign was launched to make citizens of India aware of the Right to Education Act. The campaign has the potential to engage citizens in demanding their rights. Hopefully, the effort will also push the government at different levels to prepare to provide the “rights” as envisaged by the law. At the core of the law is a “guarantee” — a guarantee for quality, free and...
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Twosome giving RTE to these kids by Aditya Dev
They are the children of migrant labourers, security guards, maids and gardeners for whom access to formal education would have been a distant goal, had it not been for two women who staRTEd teaching them under a tree in Sector 56, two years ago. The twosome are effectively giving these underprivileged children their right to education without any fanfare. From a measly five-six students, their number has now grown to...
More »Education is a magic wand, Manmohan Singh tells children at RTE campaign
-PTI "Education gave me a new life.... It is a magic wand that can help us meet any challenge." This was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's message to students as Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal rang the school bell in this nondescript town in rustic Mewat region, marking the launch of the year-long 'Shiksha Ka Haq Abhiyan' campaign to create awareness about the Right To Education (RTE). The Prime Minister's message was read out...
More »RTE drive starts today, UP out
-The Times of India With barely a few months left for the crucial Uttar Pradesh polls, the state government is reading motive in all initiatives unveiled by the Congress-led government at the Centre. UP, which is among the worst performing states in elementary education, will be the only state to miss out on sensitizing the massive countrywide year-long campaign on the Right to Education (RTE), which starts on Friday - the...
More »HC gives govt 3 weeks to notify rules under RTE
-The Times of India The Delhi high court directed the state government on Wednesday to notify rules to provide free and compulsory education to children under the Right to Education Act (RTE) within three weeks. A bench, comprising acting chief justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, asked the government to notify the rules under Section 38 of RTE Act. The direction came on the PIL filed by social jurist,...
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