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Right to Education has come ——— but is this what it means?
30 June 2010 2 Comments
By PDBHATIA (Bhayander,Maharashtra) The Right to Education(RTE)has come in place,but schools are run without proper facilities making mockery of the Education system,no proper playground for kids,no proper seating arrangement,fees are charged,no proper teachers to teach is this what RTE means.where lives of children are put in to schools which are not even having proper facilities why have such schools who are just money making business,A pathetic situation of the education system in our country.Why are such schools given license by the EDUCATION Department,who is checking if such schools should be permitted who don’t even have proper place for children,either our EDUCATION system has failed or there hands have been made warm so that such schools continue to run under there noses because corruption has entered even at the grass root level of EDUCATION.who should be answerable for this?? shouldn’t the EDUCATION Department of Maharashtra look in to such pathetic condition of schools and cancel there permissions as they are not capable of running them.
What is our HRD Minister doing…..Mr.Kapil Sibbal wake up and have a look at the pathetic conditions of such schools, these kind of schools not only deprive children of their Fundamental Right of Education but term you as a failure Not because of your policies ….the changes of making the Education System more meaningful, but the fact that there are Schools which exist which don’t have basic amenities for children, the students of the school play on the road where there is movement of traffic, What happens if tomorrow there is an accident, who will be responsible….the school NAH!! They will clearly blame the children for going out on the road, In this very school the peon of the School sold the Question Papers of the exams to students for Rs.150.00, is this what RIGHT TO EDUCATION means there is still time Mr.Sibbal either tell such schools to show up their property for Inspection by the Centrally appointed Representative of Education Department ,Because the Education Department of Maharashtra has been bought by the Managements of such schools for getting Grants and permissions from the Government….
Original at – http://www.theindiapost.com/education/right-to-education-has-come-but-is-this-what-it-means/
In news –
Right to education is here, but Maharashtra isn’t prepared
Published: Friday, Apr 2, 2010, 1:05 IST
Agency: DNA
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, has taken effect, but experts say Maharashtra is ill prepared to implement its revolutionary provisions, owing to a lack of funds, shortage of teachers and poor infrastructure.
JM Abhyankar, former project director of Sarva Shikshan Abhiyan, said, “The state government knew the RTE Act will be implemented this year, but they are yet to allot funds to implement it. Forty-five per cent of the funds for RTE have to be provided by the state, but the state’s recent budget has ignored RTE.”
Educationist Vasant Kalpande, former state board chairman, said the priority should be allocation of funds. “They need to estimate the requirement and calculate the state’s share,” he said. “A proper plan is critical.”
But Snehalata Deshmukh, former vice-chancellor of Mumbai University, said it was unlikely that the state would be able to implement it this year. The only way to allocate money would be to make a supplementary budget, but that, too, would mean a delay in implementation of the act.
Abhyankar said the huge disparities in education require urgent attention. While in some private schools, the student-teacher ratio is 20:1, in government and aided schools, it is 60:1 or worse.
Balasaheb Kale, vice-president of the Maharashtra School Teachers’ Association, said, “The number of teachers should go up. But if you hire teachers on contract for three years for just Rs3,000 a month, why would anybody be interested?”
Kale said most schools also face difficulty in getting teachers’ posts sanctioned for grants. “If such is the condition, the state would not be able to do justice to the act,” he said.
Ramesh Joshi, deputy general secretary of the All-India Federation of Teachers’ Organisation and general secretary of the BMC Teachers’ Union, said, “Teacher training is an area long neglected. We need to scale up training programmes.”
Experts cite the lack of political will. “I don’t think the state has the intention to implement the act, nor will there be any transparency as over 70% of our educational institutions are run by politicians,” said Jayant Jain, president, Forum for Fairness in Education. He said the Centre should appoint independent monitoring committees headed by judicial authorities.
Advocate Amit Karkhanis said the government will have to set up a redressal mechanism to implement the act. “A student in distress can file a writ petition if he has been denied admission in a school, but how many poor students can afford to do so?”
Original at – http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_right-to-education-is-here-but-maharashtra-isn-t-prepared_1366346
In news –
| Right to Education effect: Maharashtra passes all Std I-VIII students |
| Shamz Merchant from Oshiwara committed suicide on April 29, allegedly after having failed twice in standard VII. On Monday, 11 days after the unfortunate incident, the state government issued a circular asking schools to promote all standard I to VIII students who had failed in the academic year 2009-2010.
Citing sections of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, the state education department gave retrospective effect to the clause promoting all students to a higher class, irrespective of whether they passed the exams or not. The circular states that under section 16 of the RTE Act, no student of standard I to VIII can be detained in his or her class for any reason.
The same section also states that no student can be rusticated from primary school under any pretext. Primary school under the RTE Act is defined as comprising students from 6 to 14 years or standards I to VIII. All aided, unaided, private and government schools will come under the purview of the policy.
While the RTE Act came into effect from April 1, the state government asked for a clarification from the Centre for students who had failed in the academic year 2009-10. The state education department will soon release another notification on how these promoted students should be trained in their higher classes. |
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