RTE ACT: No detention policy and its ill effects
Right To Education (RTE) Act 2009 was passed to give enactment to the Constitution 86th amendment Act 2002 which made the right to education (Article 21A) a fundamental right to children from 6 years to 14 years. RTE ACT provides for: # Free education in government schools for children in age group 6-14. # No detention policy till Class 8 (which is removed recently by an amendment # 25% seats reserved for disadvantaged or economically weaker sections of the society in all schools. # Minimum infrastructure , minimum teacher qualification # pupil-teacher ratio ie., Students to teacher ratio. No detention policy: when the RTE Act was passed in 2009 it had section 16 which stated that “No child can be held back or expelled from the school till he completes elementary education”. This is the section which provided for the “No Detention policy” till class 8. This provision of the Act had greater effect on the quality of sch...