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Right to Education Act should be implemented: TPERM
Child Rights Protection Forum (CRPF) and Telangana People’s Education Reform Movement (TPERM) on Friday demanded that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao give up his hostile attitude towards Right to Education Act and implement it in letter and spirit.
Hyderabad: Child Rights Protection Forum (CRPF) and Telangana People’s Education Reform Movement (TPERM) on Friday demanded that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao give up his hostile attitude towards Right to Education Act and implement it in letter and spirit.
- Child Rights Proection Forum and Telangana People’s Education Reform Movement demand that the Chief Minister give up his hostile attitude towards RTE Act
- ‘State is lagging behind national average in literacy rate by 8 per cent’
- ‘The government school in the State are devoid of facilities like drinking water, toilets and kitchens’
- ‘The Act imposes duty on the government to ensure that every child is educated at least up to Class VIII’
Speaking to the media here on Friday, CRPF convener D Prakash and TPERM general secretary N Narayana demanded that the State government introduce nursery classes in government schools for the benefit of three-year-old children and provide nutritious food and quality education to them.
The Right to Education Act was brought in following movements for several decades and Parliament had enacted RTE Act in 2009 and came into effect from April 2010. “Everyone praised the RTE Act as a historical one and its aim is to provide equal education to all. There were several guidelines in the Act to control private schools and strengthen the government schools,” they said.
According to the RTE Act, children between six and 14 years must be in schools. The government should provide all facilities to the students and appoint adequate teaching staff. The schools should give priority to games, arts and health. Special schools and residential schools must be established by the government.
The government should take the responsibility of the children till they completed Class VIII. The private schools should run under the conditions framed by the Act. The private schools too should implement the government syllabus and books. The government should implement the Act strictly. Otherwise the government should initiate action against the schools.
It was unbecoming on the part of the State government to say that the Act was atrocious, they said. The State lagged behind the nation’s average in literacy rate. The State was in last place in South India at 32nd place in education development chart. In Telangana State, as many as 52 per cent school-going children were in private schools and there was no such situation prevailing in any State across the nation.
There were no facilities like drinking water, toilets and kitchens in government schools in the State. The State government was not utilising the funds allotted by the Centre. Moreover, the State government was belittling the RTE Act and questioning as to what would happen to the government schools if 25 per cent children belong to weaker sections joined the private schools under RTE Act.
The rule was part of integrated education. “In case the government feels it is harmful to the government schools then it has to concentrate on positive issue setting aside 25 per cent condition”, they said.
