Signature campaign to implement RTE Act

January 29, 2015 12:00 am | Updated November 16, 2021 08:05 pm IST - SALEM:

To ensure effective implementation of the Right to Education Act, 2009, members of the Right to Education Forum launched a mass signature campaign in Salem on Monday.—PHOTO: P. GOUTHAM

To ensure effective implementation of the Right to Education Act, 2009, members of the Right to Education Forum launched a mass signature campaign in Salem on Monday.—PHOTO: P. GOUTHAM

To ensure effective implementation of the Right to Education Act, 2009, a signature campaign was launched by the Right to Education Forum here on Monday.

R. Niraimathi, president, People’s Forum for Human Rights, and civil rights activist launched the campaign in the presence of A. Renganathan, Director of Village Reconstruction Development Project, K. Murthy, State convener, RTE Forum.

The fourm would obtain signatures from various stakeholders in society till Mach 10, 2015 and submit to Prime Minister and the Government of Tamil Nadu.

“The RTE Act, 2009 should be effectively implemented”, this was the main objective of the campaign, said the forum members.

They said that all the provisions in the Act should be implemented in all the 1.4 million schools in the country, including 54,957 schools in the State. They said that only 10 per cent of the total schools in the State are complying the provisions of the Act.

They said that the forum, formed in October 2012, conducted a study “Stock taking on the implementation of Right to Education Act, 2009 in Tamil Nadu for the period 2010 to 2013” and came out with following recommendations.

It includes developing national roadmap to ensure all schools meet the norms, commensurate enhancement of the budget for elementary education, review of the status of the implementation, special training for out-of-school children’s, need for review of curriculum and textbooks in schools to commensurate with the actual learning levels of students and ensure transparency and accountability measures in place.

The study said that the campaign “Claiming Education for Every Child” is carried out to ensure that the second deadline for the implementation of RTE Act, 2009 was implemented before March 31, 2015, as per the Supreme Court’s order.

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