Rte News

New Delhi, July 25: No child residing in areas under the jurisdiction of New Delhi Municipal Council will be denied admission in any school run by the civic agency. A decision in this regard was taken at a ...

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 stipulates that all children in the 6-14 years age group be in school. So far 2.77 lakh schools have been constructed under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) ...

New Delhi, 5 June: The provisions of RTI Act apply on private schools also which are governed by a law such as the Delhi Education Act, the Central Information Commission has held. The case relates to an ex-employee ...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday, while upholding the validity of the Right to Education Act, 2009, said that it was not applicable to the aided or unaided minority schools. The constitution bench of Chief Justice R.M.Lodha, Justice ...

According to the District Information System of Education 2013-14 survey conducted by the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), only 22% of schools in Maharashtra state fulfill Right To Education (RTE) Act norms. Out of 1.05 lakh schools in Maharashtra, ...

School authorities in India have persistently discriminated against children from Dalit, minority and other marginalised communities, pushing them out of education, a report by Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. According to the report "They Say We're Dirty: Denying ...

Madras High Court directed the State School Education Department to extend the time limit upto 15 days, instead of seven days, for issuance and submission of application forms for admission of children in schools. The First Bench stated ...

Only eight per cent schools have complied with the Right to Education (RTE) norms despite the deadline for their implementation coming to an end about a year ago, a report said. Though there have been new classrooms, 59.67 ...

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, came into force from 1st April 2010. The Act laid down a three year time frame to attain various norms and standards as specified in the Schedule ...

Voicing concern over the dropout rate of school children, Right to Education (RTE) Forum national convener Ambarish Rai Thursday said 100 percent retention should be ensured in primary and upper primary classes. "A mechanism should be evolved to monitor ...

Smt. Krishna Tirath, Minister for Women & Child Development inaugurated a two-day National Convention on ‘Three Years of Completion of the (Right To Education) RTE Act" in New Delhi. Inaugurating the Convention Smt. Tirath said that the onus ...

Primary and Secondary Education Minister Kimmane Rathnakar said on Wednesday that action will be taken by the state government, against the private educational institutions which are unwilling to follow the rules implemented by the Supreme Court's order on the ...

The Supreme Court Monday declined to interfere with the Right to Education Act which provides for free and compulsory elementary education without holding back the promotion of a child to next class till class 8. Rejecting a plea by ...

The enrolment of Muslim children in primary schools had gone up from 9.4 percent in 2006-2007 to 14.2 percent in 2012-2013, Human Resource Development Minister M.M. Pallam Raju said Monday. He said at the upper primary level during the ...