Rte News

A total of 28.5 million children in conflict-plagued countries are being denied an education, leaders from governments and international organisations said at the UN General Assembly here. "We must make an intentional and deliberate turn from past policy responses to ...

Recruitment of teachers continues to be a major challenge to fulfill the target set under the Right To Education (RTE) Act. This was one of the observations made during a review meeting conducted by HRD Minister M M Pallam Raju ...

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 mandates eight years of elementary education to all children in the 6 to 14 years age group. While supply side provisioning is being done by the Government, at ...

With an average of 82 students per classroom and one teacher for 57 students in schools in Bihar, there is an urgent need to strengthen the implementation of Right to Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act here. As per ...

The Government has formulated a number of plans to improve the quality of school teachers. Stating this the Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Dr. Shashi Tharoor said that to improve the quality of school teachers. The Government ...

Since the Right to Education (RTE) Act came into force under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), a total of 43,668 schools, 7,00,460 additional classrooms, 5,46,513 toilets and 33,703 drinking water facilities have been sanctioned to the States for ensuring compliance with ...

Once again, going back to the previous statement, the School Education Department has ordered the schools to keep the vacant seats in the 25% RTE quota open through out the year. The School Education Minister Rajendra Darda had previously stated ...

Panaji, PTI: Bowing to pressure from parents, the Goa government has agreed to give concession in increased school timings till difficulties expressed by parents are addressed. Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar held a meeting with concerned parents at Porvorim near here ...

New Delhi, Jul 12 (PTI): The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a plea challenging the Delhi High Court's order that the Right to Education (RTE) Act is not applicable to nursery admissions in unaided private schools. A bench of ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday has said that the Education System in India has failed to achieve its objectives and hence it needs to be reformed immediately. As we all are aware that a recent Study conducted by UNESCO also ...

There is a general presumption among many policy makers that secondary and higher education is not necessary for economic growth and development. On the other hand, it is literacy and primary education that is argued to be important. Estimates on the ...

A recent survey held on the education imparted in Governmental Schools have revealed that a majority of schools run by the Government lack infrastructure. Education is believed to be the only means for a developing nation like India to develop ...

As we know, RTE (Right To Education) is a basic right to all. But still, children with disability are left behind from the Right To Education. Why? Many (if not most!) disabled persons are hidden away, stigmatized, and hardly exist ...

The Human Resource Department (HRD) Minister Dr Pallam Raju while addressing the National Monitoring Committee for Education of SCs, STs and Persons with Disabilities at New Delhi today said that major gains have been secured for SCs, STs and PwDs in ...