Chhattisgarh asks schools to honour RTE Act

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 14:00

Tags: Chhattisgarh schools, Right to Education Act

Raipur: The Chhattisgarh government on Wednesday instructed private schools in the state to take steps to reserve one-fourth of their total seats for the Scheduled Tribes (ST), Scheduled Castes (SC) and socially backward classes under the Right to Education law.

"In order to ensure strict following of the Right to Education Act, 2009, the private schools across the state have been instructed to keep 25 percent of their seats reserved for the ST, SC and socially backward classes," an official statement said.

The order was issued as reports from several areas said that private schools are reluctant to honour the Right to Education of these socially weaker sections or admit these students from Class one to eight. These schools were also denying admissions to students aged between 6-14 years, an official from the education department told a news agency.

The government has also decided to launch a high-voltage publicity campaign for the RTE that provides for free and compulsory education to children between 6 and 14 years, so that maximum number of students belonging to weaker sections and disadvantaged groups can access education.

IANS

First Published: Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 14:00

Comments

Surabhi Singh - Raipur
As long as we do not shed our inhibitions and hatred for people coming from poorer sections of this society, no amount of Propaganda by government or policing by security forces is going to change the picture in our neighbourhood. People simply write off these unfortunates as children of lesser gods. We do not sit with them, eat in the same table with them, our children do not play with them, how can one expect that one day, these children would be studying in the same class with them? First, the mentality has to be changed. The absolute deplorable condiiton of govt schools in villages have to be changed, then, RTE will become a reality. We need not pity them. But, we need to give them the opportunity these poor children deserve, simply because they are born in the same society as us.. Its their Natural Right..