RTE Admission 2014 Violations by Schools

RTE Admission 2014 Violations by Schools

THE Supreme Court on Friday sought response of the Centre, all Stales and Union Territories on a petition alleging that there was violation of Right to Education (RTE) Act in schools across the country and sought its proper implementation.

A bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam issued notice and sought their response after summer vacation on a plea filed by an organisation. National Coalition for Education. 

The plea said lack of resources and failure of implement provisions of the RTE ACT has resulted in a significant decline in education performance.

Senior advocate Colin sought a direction to all the Stales to complete the required neighbourhood mapping within six months and new schools be constructed six months after completion of the process.

The petition asked the States and UTs to recruit and train one lakh additional professionally trained teachers to end the shortage of educators within a year.

It sought a direction that "the Slates and UTs upgrade all deficient schools with appropriate physical infrastructure so as lo be in compliance with the RTE Act within six months.

"The States and UTs regularise and make permanent al I contract and para-teachers in the country." it said.

The petition also said the Slates and UTs should disclose me number of students admitted under the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) quota in the State in accordance with the provisions of the Act.

RTE Admission 2014 - 2015 Awareness Details

RTE Admission 2014 - 2015 Awareness Details

WITH the passage of Right of Children io Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 (RTE Act), it was expected that the situation among the marginalized children, so far as education is concerned, will change drastically. Academicians including a large number of teachers and school managements were skeptical about its implementation.

Although the process of bringing about the change is very slow, the attitude of the school managements, approach of teachers. awareness among targeted children and their families, needs careful scrutiny.

Majority of parents of the marginalised children being illiterate, fail to understand importance of the facility offered to them under the Act. They even are reluctant to approach the schools, talk to the teachers to get the information and fail to motivate their children to make the opportunity.

A study was conducted by By Dr Naveenchandran Bhat of Matru Sewa Sangh Institute of Social Work on the issue. He held discussion with heads of the schools, teachers and parents as a part of his study.

It was found that school administrations are not trained to identify and screen needy students. Those who seek admission are not interested in studies, necessary' seriousness in studies is not shown by them, they are not attentive in classes. They are not accustomed to the school atmosphere and flee away as and when they get opportunity.

Parents lack interest in studies of their wards. They shy away from meetings with teachers, who arc willing to help out the students. The teachers are required to spend more time and face difficulties in convincing these students. As these students fail to match intellectually with other students, they often become target by oilier students. For want of determination, these students arc demo-tivated in schools, which strive to maintain high standards. The results are adversely affected, which is a major concern for the school management.

The teachers face difficulty in handling such students, as they are usually reluctant in completing home work, taking active part in curricular and extra-curricular activities, are not attentive in classes, show least interest in counselling by the teachers.

Dr Navinchandran's study has made it clear that the School Social Work, which is an important branch in social work studies, has remained neglected. The specialisation needs to be revived and trained social workers should be placed in schools for handling such cases. The regular teachers have not been trained to deal with marginalised students admitted under RTF Act. They are overburdened with the work of counseling these students. Trained social workers are equipped with methods to convince such students, which has been adequately proved in the past.

Although the study was limited to Nagpur city, that too for a limited number of schools selected randomly. detailed study is required to make RTE more effective.

Right to Education (RTE) complied by 8% Schools Only

Right to Education (RTE) 2014 Admission complied by 8% Schools Only

Only eight per cent schools have complied with the Right to Education (RTE) norms despite the deadline for their implementation coming to an end about a year ago, a report released said on Thursday.

Though there have been new classrooms, 59.67% of the children study in schools that still fail to meet the pupil-teacher norms. The mechanism for redressal of complaints also remains weak, it said.

The RTE forum report further said that while the RTE Act mandates that all teachers in the country are to be trained by 2015, India continues to have 6.6 lakh untrained teachers and 5 lakh posts are vacant.

“Irrespective of the party in power, no state has fully implemented RTE. This is the case from Gujarat, with a 14.4% compliance rate even in Ahmedabad, to Mizoram with the lowest compliance rate of zero per cent in Serchhip district,” said forum convenor Ambarish Rai.

At the fourth national stocktaking convention, where the report was released, he said the trend is the same everywhere with only one per cent schools in Amethi in Uttar Pradesh fulfilling the RTE norms.

“People have, however, become more aware and angry with the prevailing reality. It is essential that political parties listen to the voice of the people and respond by placing education high on their agendas,” he said.

The RTE Act had set March 31, 2013 as the deadline for meeting norms such as provision of classrooms, drinking water facilities, toilets etc.