Both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh continue to lag in implementing the Right to Education Act (RTE), despite its enactment five years back. Even basic requirements for the implementation of the Act have not been met by the two states during the past five years. When the state was not bifurcated, several teacher unions, education activists and student unions approached the state authorities to implement RTE, but they could not achieve any breakthrough.
The Act was intended at providing education to school drop-outs, students from poor families including SC, ST, minorities and other backward communities. As per the norms of the Act all the state governments were mandated to provide basic education to the children aged between 5 to 14 years. The law also mandated the private managements to allot 25 per cent of the seats for poor students.
Interestingly, the deadline for the proper implementation of the Act was March 31, 2015, in the moral book of the Act in the year 2010 when the RTE was enacted. However, so far the implementation of this Act is on the backburner in many aspects. Accordin to Right to Education Forum’s state convener Ch Murali Mohan, a survey conducted by the forum revealed that percentage of RTE implementation in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana is only 9 per cent.
He said, “It is disgusting for both the states that such a meager per cent of implementation is recorded.” He said that as per the analysis of 2011 census analysis by the UNICEF, it was revealed that Hyderabad had highest number of child labors in the state. City has 80,000, Ranga Reddy district has 75,000 and Mahabubnagar district has about 68,000 child labours, he said. He criticised the Telangana government for not giving any importance to such an important act and said that one can file PIL against the state as the RTE was a mandatory compulsion on the state governments.
Telangana government instead, has been talking about KG to PG scheme for education but allocated only Rs 25 crores in the previous and current state budget, he said. Interestingly, the previous united AP governments have stonewalled the implementation by showing the deadline of March 31, 2015 and now Telangana government shirking its responsibility by saying that it does not have data and was new into the power.
It was learnt that the Telangana government had sought six months’ time from the Centre to implement the Act completely but there was no communication from the Centre has been reported in this regard.
He said Telangana government appeared to be not keen on this issue and argued that the number of teachers was more than students and needed rationalisation.
PRTU president P Venkat Reddy said that the Telangana government utterly failed in the implementation of RTE in many aspects. The state government was failed especially in curbing the corrupt practices of collecting huge amounts as donation and capitation fees by private education institutions.
Facts and Figures
1.Right to Education Act was approved in Lok Sabha on July 2, 2009.
2.It was passed in Rajya Sabha on July 20, 2009.
3.It came into force from April 1, 2010.
4.RTE has completed its five years on April 1, 2015.
5.Moral book of act says that all the states would be having appropriate framework to implement RTE by March 31, 2015.
6.Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states lag behind in implementation with only 9 per cent.
7.A survey was done in 20 states with 50 government schools in each state shows that implementation of act was thrown to the winds.
Interestingly, the deadline for the proper implementation of the Act was March 31, 2015, in the moral book of the Act in the year 2010 when the RTE was enacted. However, so far the implementation of this Act is on the backburner in many aspects. Accordin to Right to Education Forum’s state convener Ch Murali Mohan, a survey conducted by the forum revealed that percentage of RTE implementation in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana is only 9 per cent.
He said, “It is disgusting for both the states that such a meager per cent of implementation is recorded.” He said that as per the analysis of 2011 census analysis by the UNICEF, it was revealed that Hyderabad had highest number of child labors in the state. City has 80,000, Ranga Reddy district has 75,000 and Mahabubnagar district has about 68,000 child labours, he said. He criticised the Telangana government for not giving any importance to such an important act and said that one can file PIL against the state as the RTE was a mandatory compulsion on the state governments.
Telangana government instead, has been talking about KG to PG scheme for education but allocated only Rs 25 crores in the previous and current state budget, he said. Interestingly, the previous united AP governments have stonewalled the implementation by showing the deadline of March 31, 2015 and now Telangana government shirking its responsibility by saying that it does not have data and was new into the power.
It was learnt that the Telangana government had sought six months’ time from the Centre to implement the Act completely but there was no communication from the Centre has been reported in this regard.
He said Telangana government appeared to be not keen on this issue and argued that the number of teachers was more than students and needed rationalisation.
PRTU president P Venkat Reddy said that the Telangana government utterly failed in the implementation of RTE in many aspects. The state government was failed especially in curbing the corrupt practices of collecting huge amounts as donation and capitation fees by private education institutions.
Facts and Figures
1.Right to Education Act was approved in Lok Sabha on July 2, 2009.
2.It was passed in Rajya Sabha on July 20, 2009.
3.It came into force from April 1, 2010.
4.RTE has completed its five years on April 1, 2015.
5.Moral book of act says that all the states would be having appropriate framework to implement RTE by March 31, 2015.
6.Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states lag behind in implementation with only 9 per cent.
7.A survey was done in 20 states with 50 government schools in each state shows that implementation of act was thrown to the winds.
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