The document discusses India's Right to Education Act (RTE). It notes that the RTE Act guarantees free and compulsory education for all children ages 6 to 14. It places the responsibility of enrolling, attending, and completing elementary education on the government. The RTE Act also specifies duties of governments, local authorities, and parents to provide free education. It establishes norms for infrastructure, teacher qualifications and ratios, curriculum, and more to promote the right to education for all Indian children.

1. Submitted to : Dr. George Varghese

2.  Akhila M
 Akhila Prabhakaran
 Aleena R
 Amitha Raghunathan
( Physical Science )

4.  The right to education is legally guaranteed for all
without any discrimination.
 States have the obligation to protect, respect and
fulfill the right to education.
 There are ways to hold states accountable for
violations or deprivations of the right to education.

5.  Today the right to education is still denied
to millions around the world.
 A rough version of the draft was first
prepared in the year 2005 and was met with
a lot of criticism.

6. “The RTE act is the first legislation in the world that
puts the responsibility of ensuring enrolment
attendance and completion on the government. It is the
parent’s responsibility to send the childern to schools in
the US and other countries.”
- Sam Carlson ( The World Bank
education specialist for India)

7.  RTE act comes under Article 21-A inserted in
fundamental right as per 86th constitutional
amendment,2002.
 Right of children to free and compulsory education
Act (RTE) enacted by the parliament on 4 August
2009.
 came into force on 1 April 2010.
 “The state shall provide free and compulsory
education to all children of the age of 6 to 14 years
in such a manner as the state may, by law,
determine.”

8. Free education is defined as freedom
from liability to pay any fee to the
school and such of the expences as may
be likely to prevent the child from
participating in and completing
elementary education.

9. Compulsory education defined as the
obligation of the state to take all
necessary steps to ensure that every
child participates in,and completes
elementary education.

10. 1. RTE Act provides to every child of the age of 6 to
14 years the right to free and compulsory
education in a neighbourhood school till the
completion of elementary education.
2. It specifies the duties and responsibilities of
appropriate governments,local authority and
parents in providing free and compulsory
education.

11. 3. It lays down the norms and standards to pupil
teacher ratios, infrastructure, working days and
teacher working hours.
4. It provides for rational deployment of teachers by
ensuring that the specified pupil teacher ratio is
maintained for each school.
5. It provides for appointment of appropriately
trained teachers, ie; teachers with the requisite
entry and academic qualification.

12. 6. It provides for development of curriculum in
consonance with the values enshrined in the
constitution.
7. A child who completes elementary education shall
be awarded a certificate.
8. It has opened the doors of private schools, by
making 25% of the seats reserved for the children
belonging to the backward class and economically
backward sections.
9. The act bans corporal punishment.

13. 10. It bans the screening procedure of children for
giving admission. No child's admission can be
rejected on the basis of unavailability of the
required documents.
11. It makes provisions for non-admitted child to be
admitted to an age appropriate class.
12. It prohibits physical punishment and mental
harassment, screening procedure for admission of
children, capitation fee, private tuition by teachers
and running of schools without recognition.

14.  Education in the Indian constitution is a concurrent
issue and both centre and states can legislate on the
issue. The act lays down specific responsibilities for
the centre, state and local bodies for its
implementation.

15. Ignorance among teachers and guardians
about the provisions of RTE Act.
Development of special training
programmes.
Preparation of relevant teaching learning
materials.
Shortage of teachers.

16. Need for suitable infrastructure
modifications.
Need for organising programmes for
community awareness and attitude change
in order to make school for all children.

17.  Landmark act that ensure education for every
child.
 Take education as first agenda for nation
transformation.
 Create legally protected environment for
education.
 Create greate impact on improving literacy rate.

18.  www.education.kerala.gov.in
 https://mhrd.gov.in/rte
 https://www.right-to-education.org
 Contemporary India and education-Bharathidasan
University,Thiruchirapally.
 Right to children to free and compulsory education
Act,2009,Vikaspedia