Report Card on the Right to Education Act, 2009 in Select Districts of Uttar Pradesh
The deadline toward the implementation of mandatory norms of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (RTE Act) concluded on 31 March 2013 with the Ministry of Human Resource Development declining the request of some states to extend the deadline. The Act, which is a milestone in the history of elementary [...]
Reality Check: Key findings of primary research studies on MPLADS and RTE
Impact- evaluation study of the Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) As part of our mandate of strengthening public policy, planning and governance of development issues, PIF commissioned a pilot study to look at the performance of the Scheme in the year 2009-10 and 2010-11 towards achieving its stated goal of grassroots development [...]
Empowering poor children
The Right to Education Act, 2009, is a landmark Act, but certain crucial provisions of it for the empowerment of marginalised children have not been implemented ever for the session of 2012-‘13, three years after the Act was notified. This is due to certain ambiguities, which could have been avoided with timely intervention and joint [...]
School results are in…
The preamble to the historic ‘Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009’ (RTE) reads ‘… An Act to provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years.’ So how realistic is the target set-out by this Act? Since the very inception of our Constitution in [...]
We Want Good Grades
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 became effective from April 1, 2010. It is one of the most ambitious and commendable pieces of legislation piloted by the present Government. The Act promises free and compulsory education to children from the age of 6 to 14 years. As Dr. Amartya Sen [...]