What is the Right to Education (RTE) Act ?
The Children’s Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act or the Right to Education Act (RTE) is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted on August 4, 2009 that outlines the conditions for the importance of free and compulsory education for children aged 6 to 14 in India in accordance with Article 21a of the Constitution of India. India became one of 135 countries that made education one of the fundamental rights of every child when the Act came into force on April 1, 2010.
Feature of RTE Act
- Free and compulsory education for all children in India between the ages of 6 and 14.
- No child may be detained, expelled, or required to take an examination before completing primary education.
- If a child over the age of 6 has not been accepted into any school or has failed to complete his or her primary education, then he or she must be admitted to a class appropriate for his or her age. However, if there may be a case where a child is directly admitted to a class appropriate to his or her age, then, in order to be on an equal footing with others, he or she is entitled to receive special training at such times as may be prescribed. At the same time, a child admitted to primary education has the right to free education until the completion of primary education, even after the age of 14.
- Proof of age for admission
- A child who has received primary education is issued a certificate.
- Calls must be received at a fixed ratio of students to teachers.
- It is necessary to make a 25% reservation for economically disadvantaged sections of the population for admission to grade I in all private schools.
- Improving the quality of education is of great importance.
- School teachers will need an appropriate professional degree within five years or they will lose their jobs.
- School infrastructure (where there are problems) needs to be improved every 3 years, otherwise recognition will be canceled.
- The financial burden will be shared between the state and the central government.
