The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme has been conceived as a major intervention by the Central government to deal with the high rates of infant mortality, low birth weight, and malnutrition among women and children. The scheme essentially targets children in the age group of zero to six years and women in the reproductive age group. The problem is that the ICDS is seen as the success story behind...
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Girl's expulsion stayed as lawyer cites RTE
Barely days after right to education was enforced in the country, the Act was cited in the Delhi high court when it stayed the expulsion of a 12-year-old girl from her school for failing to clear the class VI exams and sought an explanation from the school. Justice Kailash Gambhir issued notice to St Xavier's School in the city seeking an explanation by May 11 on why Suman Bhati and...
More »Mid-day meal scheme a failure in Rajasthan by Perneet Singh
Even as the Right to Education Act comes into force in the country yesterday, the Mid-day meal scheme, an ambitious scheme of the previous Congress-led regime under PV Narsimha Rao, has failed to attract children to government schools in the state. Recently Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot admitted that 10 lakh children had dropped out of government schools in the state in the last five years. Official figures from the Rural...
More »Help implement right to education: Manmohan by Aarti Dhar
Granting elementary education as a fundamental right to the children of the country, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday asked the States and Union Territories to work together as part of a common national endeavour. Addressing the nation to mark the implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 that makes elementary education an entitlement for children in the age group of 6-14 years, Dr. Singh...
More »Child rights panel to monitor RTE implementation by Aarti Dhar
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has been mandated to monitor the implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009. A special division within the NCPCR will undertake this task in the coming months and a special toll-free helpline to register complaints will be set up. The NCPCR has invited all civil society groups, students, teachers, administrators, artists, government officials, legislators and members...
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