RTE

“All persons should be educated, so we could have peace in the world”. This is a very famous quote of John Amos Comenius, who is considered as a father of education. It is a fact that, peace can’t be established unless certain rights are not guaranteed to all of its citizen and definitely education is

The RTE Act 2009 envisages that the education is a fundamental right of every child who is between 6 and 14 years of age. This legal enactment echoes a right-based approach to the education of our children. The sole purpose behind this right-based approach is to maximize the development of children, so that they become

A very large number of our children never get admitted to a school, and they do not complete even elementary education due to various socio-economic reasons like, migration, extreme poverty, homelessness of the family, children living or working in urban slums, in streets, on railway platforms or construction sites, working as domestic workers, child labourers,

As we know that the RTE Act has made it very clear that, every child of the nation is entitled to get free, compulsory and quality education. The aim of the Act is not to simply increase the rate of literacy, but to produce well educated children ready to take the mantle of nation building.

The School Management Committee (SMC) has a very critical role in achieving the goals of RTE. It has remarkable potential to transform the present system of education to more result oriented. In fact, this is a vital component of our primary education system and a big step to democratize the education process in the country

There are two tier grievance redressal mechanisms available in the state of Maharashtra, as mandated by the RTE Act, 2009. These are local grievance redressal authority, which consists of SMC/ local authority and the Commission for the Protection of Child Rights. The RTE Act provides constitution of the Commission for the Protection of Child Rights