Rishikesh, B. S.
(2016)
Significance of the RTE Act to the public education system.
Learning Curve (25).
pp. 27-29.
Abstract
The RTE Act 2009 (The Act) is about the ‘right
of children in India for free and compulsory
elementary education’; it is about children and not
about schools, hence the significance of the Act is
to all schools. However, the popular perception,
accompanied by the undue focus of implementing
one minor provision of the Act by the education
departments of the various States, coupled with a
few judgments from the Supreme Court has led to
the belief that the Act has, in fact, nothing to do
with the public education system! It is important
to clarify this and other myths associated with the
Act. Hence, in this article the attempt will not be
to detail out the significant aspects of the Act to
the public education system, as much as, to detail
out the Act in order to bust the myth that the Act
is all about reservations in the private schools and
hence has nothing to do with the public education
system.The biggest myth to bust is – ‘the RTE Act in India
is about privatising education’. Recently at a high
level meeting, I was witness to one gentleman
going on relentlessly at every given opportunity
that the only way to progress on the education
front is to abolish the RTE Act!
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