Education is the most beautiful gift which can be given to a child as this will not only change the life of the child but of everyone around him. As said by Jean Piaget, “The principle goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done” Education is the most powerful tool through which you can change the world and make it a better place to live for all.
In order to promote education for all and make it accessible to all sections of society, the Government of India took the initiative of making the Right to Education a fundamental right. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act or Right to Education Act was instituted by the Parliament of India on 4 August 2009. It depicts the significance of free and mandatory education for all the children between 6-14 years in India under Article 21 (A) of the Constitution of India.
India became one of 135 countries to make education a fundamental right of every child when the Act came into force on 1 April 2010. It is based on the ideas of Admission in Age Appropriate Class (AAAC), Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE), and No Detention Policy (NDP). The Act also prescribes minimum norms for elementary schools, prohibits the practice of unrecognized schools, and advocates against donation fees and interviews of children at the time of admission.
Education in the Indian constitution is a concurrent issue on which both center and states can legislate. This Act lays down specific responsibilities for the center, state, and local bodies for its implementation on the field. RTE Act provides the guidelines on the following:
Free and compulsory schooling for all the children
It is mandatory for the Government to give free and necessary rudimentary instruction to every single child, within 1 km walking distance for children in classes I to V and 3 km for those in classes VI to VIII. These schools are termed as ‘neighborhood schools'. Children are not at risk to pay expenses or whatever other charges that may keep the person in question from seeking after and finishing rudimentary instruction. Free education incorporates the arrangements of books, outfits, stationery materials and extraordinary instructive material for kids to reduce the weight of school expenses
Separate arrangements for special cases
The Right to Education Act orders that any kid who has not been admitted to school should be admitted to an age proper class and should be prepared and empowered to come up to an age-suitable learning level
Mandatory standards
The Right to Education Act sets down standards and norms identifying with Pupil-Teacher-Ratios (number of children per instructor), classrooms, separate toilets for young girls and young boys, the facility of clean drinking water, number of school-working days, working hours of educators, and so on. Every single grade school (Primary school + Middle School) in India needs to abide by these arrangements of standards to meet the base standard set by the Right to Education Act
Provision for instructors
The Right to Education Act accommodates sound sending of educators by guaranteeing that the predetermined Pupil-Teacher-Ratio is kept up in each school with no differences in urban-rural posting to maintain a balance in the deployment of teachers. It additionally commands selecting properly prepared instructors for example educators with the essential passage and scholastic capabilities
Zero resilience against discrimination and harassment
The Right to Education Act 2009 emphasizes on preventing children from corporal punishment and mental harassment, separation dependent on sexual orientation, rank, class and religion, any kind of illegal transaction for the admission, private educational cost communities, and working of unrecognized schools
Developing inclusive spaces for all
The Right to Education Act 2009 mandates for all the private schools to reserve 25% of their seats for children belonging to socially disadvantaged and economically weaker sections. This provision of the Act is aimed at boosting social inclusion to provide for a more just and equal nation
RTE emphasizes on providing a proper classroom for every teacher in the school, an office, a storeroom, and a principal’s room. The school has to ensure a hygienic kitchen for midday meals, a safe drinking water facility, and separate toilets for boys and girls along with proper fencing, a playground, and a library with relevant books and teaching aid. The school has to ensure all-round development of the child and practice inclusion without denying admission to any child on any grounds.
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