CSR: Educating All For A Transformative Change
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act or Right to Education Act (RTE), is an Act of the Parliament of India, which was enacted on 4 August 2009. According to the website, it describes the modalities of the importance of free and compulsory education for children between 6 and 14 in India under Article 21a of the Indian Constitution. India became one of 135 countries to make education a fundamental right of every child when the Act came into force on 1 April 2010.
For every child between the ages of 6 and 14, there are rules laid down inorder to provide them with a fundamental right of education. The public private partnership between the govt and private schools, encourages the reservation of 25% seats for children.
All unrecognised schools are not allowed to take donation or capitation fees and no interview of the child or parent for admission. A child isn’t allowed to be held back, expelled, or required to pass a board examination until the completion of elementary education.
The National Independent Schools Alliance (NISA) recently called for a demonstration in the capital to protest against the provisions of the Right To Education (RTE) Act 2009, which says that unrecognised schools should be shut. The low-budget private schools across the country have been maintained with a meager fee of Rs 200-1,000 and limited resources.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as one of its goals had participation in primary education. Post 2015 the agenda is a goal in itself in the SDGs. The new global agenda recognises the roleof education for sustainable development for better and transformative change.
In the 1990s, the World Bank funded a number of measures to set up schools within easy reach of rural communities. This effort was consolidated in the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan model in the 1990s. RTE takes the process further, and makes the enrolment of children in schools a state prerogative.
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