Volume : VIII, Issue : III, March - 2019

Right to Education (RTE): A Burning Issue

Suman Kalyan Roy

Abstract :

Right to Education (RTE) Act is a milestone in the movement towards achieving the goal of universal, equitable and quality education. The Act is not only legislative sanction and it is the most substantive declaration of the commitment and responsibility of Indian Government towards education. Thus, it is obvious that India has responded positively to global policy developments and very much on the path of Universalization of Elementary Education (UEE) which emphasizes access, equity and quality. The quantitative development of elementary education without giving proper attention to quality is worrisome trend. The formal schools must impart satisfactory and equitable quality education to ensure social and economic development. Sadly it has often been observed that quality is sacrificed for the sake of quantitative development of elementary education. The RTE Act, 2010 in India is the culmination of the Constitutional provisions and various policies and programmes of the Government of India. As such the provision of the Act is nothing new. Although the educational system in India from ancient time has had been socially exclusive where education was the prerogative of the upper castes, yet there has been concerted effort to introduce free and compulsory education right from the framing of the Constitution. The concept of free and compulsory education was inherent in the proposal of Common School system in the Report of the Kothari Commission. Later on National Policy on Education (1968, 1986) had reiterated on it. Besides a few public interest litigation and the activism of the civic society further boosted the cause of compulsory education. The outcome was the amendment of the constitution by inserting Article 21A which proclaimed education as a Fundamental Right

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RIGHT TO EDUCATION (RTE): A BURNING ISSUE, Suman Kalyan Roy PARIPEX - INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-3 | March-2019


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