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Module: 3 Understanding Right to Education(Credit: 1, hours: 15, Marks: 25)
Objectives: After learning this module the student teacher will be able to-
- explain the nature of RTE.
- elaborate the objectives and features of RTE.
- elaborate the provisions of RTE.
- create teaching and evaluation strategies for RTE
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- evaluate the role of stakeholder, parents, media and government organization in
implementation of RTE.
Content:
1. Nature, need and importance of RTE in India.(2)
2. History of RTE: Directive principles of state policy, laws and commission regarding
Indian education, UNO declaration about child‘s Rights, RTE ACT 2009.(3)
3. Objectives and Features of RTE Act2009.(2)
4. Provisions of RTE Act 2009(3)
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6. Duties and responsibilities of school and teachers(2)
7. Role of stakeholder, parents, media (1)
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School management committee SMC by CACR
1. CITIZENS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILD RIGHTS
(A SECTION 25 COMPANY)
NETWORK OF LIKE MINDED CITIZENS, ACTIVISTS, ALMs,
RWAs, COMMUNITY CENTRES, ETC. ADVOCATING CHILD
RIGHTS WITH SPECIFIC FOCUS ON PRIMARY EDUCATION
IN BMC SCHOOLS
2. OBSERVATIONS
BMC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT PRESENTLY
MANAGES
MORE
THAN
1100
PRIMARY
SCHOOLS AND ALMOST 145 SECONDARY
SCHOOLS IN MUMBAI WITH SUPPORT OF THE
STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.
MAJORITY OF THE SCHOOL BUILDINGS ARE
OWNED BY THE BMC AND SOME OF THEM ARE
ALSO RENTED.
3. OBSERVATIONS
BUDGETS FOR PRIMARY
EDUCATION HAVE TRIPLED
IN LAST 5 to 6 YEARS FROM
RS.800+ CRORES TO
ALMOST RS.2500 CRORES
BUT NUMBER OF CHILDREN
HAVE DWINDLED FROM
MORE THAN 5 LAKHS TO
LESS THAN 4 LAKHS
DURING THE SAME PERIOD
RS.CRORE
#No. of STUDENTS.LAKHS
2500
2000
1500
1000
RS.CRORE
500
Yr.2013
Yr.2008
0
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
#No. of
STUDENTS
.LAKHS
5. ENTITLEMENT
AS PER RIGHT TO EDUCATION ACT 2009, ALL CHILDREN BETWEEN AGE
6-14 ENTITLED TO FREE AND QUALITY EDUCATION AND HUGE
BUDGETS OF APPROX 2,61,500 CRORES SANCTIONED BY THE CENTRAL
GOVERNMENT FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME FOR NEXT 5 YEARS, 65%
BY THE CENTRE AND 35% BY STATE GOVERNMENTS.
6. FACILITIES AND AMENITIES FOR CHILDREN ENROLLED IN BMC SCHOOLS
A.
2 SETS OF FREE UNIFORMS, SCHOOL BAG, NOTEBOOKS AND TEXTBOOKS, COMPASS
BOX AND TIFFIN BOX, WATER BOTTLE, RAINCOAT/UMBRELLA ONCE EVERY 2
YEARS,SHOES AND SOCKS, HANDKERCHIEFS, ETC.
B.
MID DAY MEALS COMPRISING OF VARIETY OF KHICHADI WITH DIFFERENT
INGREDIENTS EVERY DAY, BISCUITS / IDLI SAMBAR / RAJGIRA LADOO / EGG
/
BANANAS, ETC. ONCE A WEEK.
C.
FLAVOURED MILK IN TETRAPAKS EVERY DAY.
D.
BMC HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO CONDUCT BI-ANNUAL HEALTH CHECK UPS FOR EVERY
CHILD.
E.
EVERY CHILD PROTECTED UNDER THE RAJIV GANDHI VIDYARTHI SURAKSHA
YOJANA, AN ACCIDENT INSURANCE SCHEME.
F.
LIBRARIES, SCIENCE LABORATORIES, COMPUTER LABS, ETC. IN EVERY SCHOOL.
G.
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMMES FOR CHILDREN ENROLLED IN CLASS IV AND CLASS VII.
H.
RS.2500 FIXED DEPOSIT CERTIFICATES FOR EVERY GIRL CHILD PASSING OUT OF
CLASS VII
7. How can people help?
A. GET TOGETHER, START OBSERVING NEIGHBOURHOOD BMC SCHOOLS, BE
A PART OF SCHOOL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEES AS EMPOWERED UNTER
THE RTE ACT.
B. ENSURE PARENTS PARTICIPATION IN SMC MEETINGS, WHICH WILL HELP IN
EMPOWERING THE PARENTS.
C. CREATE AWARENESS ABOUT THIS VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE OF ENSURING
EVERY CHILD IN SCHOOL AS PER RTE.
D. QUESTION THE HIERARCHY IN EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, OUR ELECTED
REPRESENTATIVES, CORPORATORS, ETC.
E. ENSURE ACTIVATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE SYSTEM RATHER
THAN CREATING PARALLEL SYSTEMS, WHICH WILL GO A LONG WAY IN
ENSURING EVERY CHILD WILL HAVE ACCESS TO FREE AND QUALITY
EDUCATION.
10. School Management Committee-SMC
WHAT is SMC ?
SMC is constituent body formed in accordance
with the RTE –right to education act to monitor
the various
amenities, facilities, budgets, infrastructure, and
most importantly the quality of education.
School Management Committee shall be
constituted in every school, other than an
unaided school, within six months of the
appointed date, and reconstituted every two yrs.
11. School Management Committee-SMC
WHY do we need SMC?
To get all stakeholders involved in the process &
allow their voices to be heard
DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDERS IN SMC
Parents
Teachers
8%
Students
8%
9%
75%
NGO voln*
12. WORKING OF THE SMC
PARTICIPATION
FROM
PARENTS &
authorities
REVIEW & REVISE
THE PLAN &
STRATEGY
DISSCUSSION
ON PROBLEMS
AND
SOLUTIONS
FEEDBACK FROM
STUDENTS &
PARENTS ABOUT
IMPROVEMENT
FORM A PLAN OF
ACTION FOR
EACH SCHOOL
FOR THE
ACADEMIC YEAR
EXECUTE &
IMPLEMENT THE
PLAN
13. COMPOSITION OF SMC
Seventy five percent of the strength of the
School Management Committee shall be from
amongst parents or guardians of children i.e. 15
PARENTS from 20 members.
To manage its affairs, the School Management
Committee shall elect a Chairperson and Vice
Chairperson from among the parent members
Composition of SMC
25%
PARENTS
75%
OTHERS
14. COMPOSITION OF SMC
Out of twenty members,50% must be women
i.e., 10 must be women in the SMC
Ratio of Women : Men in SMC
WOMEN
=50%
WOMEN=
50%
MEN
WOMEN
MEN=50%
15. COMPOSITION OF SMC
It is further provided that proportionate
representation shall be given to the parents or
guardians of the children belonging to
disadvantaged group and weaker section as
defined in the RTE Act 2009 and RTE Rules
2011 & from time to time.
16. COMPOSITION OF SMC
The remaining twenty five percent of the strength of the
School Management Committee ( 5 members) shall be
from amongst the following persons :
a) one third members from amongst the elected
members of the local authority, to be decided by the
local authority;
b) one third members from amongst teachers from the
school, to be decided by the teachers of the school;
c) one third from amongst local educationists / children
in the school, to be decided by the parents in the
Committee.
17. COMPOSITION OF SMC
The Head teacher of the school OR where the
school does not have a head teacher, the
senior most teacher of the school shall be the
ex-officio Member-Convener of the School
Management Committee.
18. COMPOSITION OF SMC
Where there are two or more schools in a
panchayat, the panchayat president will be the
member of School Management Committee of
one of the school remaining schools shall have
ward members as members of the School
Management Committee.
20. Functions of School Management
Committee
The School Management Committee
shall meet at least once a month and the
minutes and decisions of the meetings shall be
properly recorded and made available to the
public.
ALL the NAMES, PHONE NUMBERS, ADDRESS
& emails of EVERY SMC member must be
recorded , including the NAME of the NGO, its
field of work and registered address
21. Functions of School Management
Committee (SMC)
A. Monitor the functioning of the school.
B. Preparation,recommendatio,Implementation
and monitoring of the School Development
Plan (SDP)
C. Monitoring of utilisation of the grants received
from the appropriate Government or Local
authority or any other source
D. Performance of other functions
22. [A] Monitor the functioning of
the school
Assess the learning ability of each child and
accordingly supplement additional instructions if
any required.
Ensure the enrolment and continued attendance of
all the children from the neighbourhood of the
school.
Bring to the notice of the Local Education Authority
any deviation from the rights of the child, in
particular mental and physical harassment of the
children, denial of admission and timely provision
of free entitlements.
23. [A] Monitor the functioning of
the school
Identify the needs, prepare a plan, and monitor
the implementation of the provisions, where a
child above 6 years of age has not been admitted
in any school or though admitted, could not
complete his or her Elementary
Education, then, he or she shall be admitted in a
class appropriate to his or her age.
List out specifications for equitable quality of
education in a school.
24. [A] Monitor the functioning of
the school
Monitor the identification and enrolment of
CWSN and mobilize facilities for education of
children with disability, as per equal
opportunities, protection and full participation
Act 1995 and ensure their participation in and
completion of Elementary Education
Monitor the implementation of the mid day
meal in the school
25. [A] Monitor the functioning
of the school
Communicate in simple and creative ways to the
population in the neighbourhood of the
school, the rights of the child as enunciated in
the Act as also the duties of the appropriate
government, local authority, school, parents and
guardian.
26. [A] Monitor the functioning of
the school
Ensure that no teacher shall engage himself or
herself in private tuition or private teaching
activity
Ensure that no child shall be liable to pay any
kind of fee or charges or expenses which may
prevent him or her from pursuing and
completing the elementary education.
27. [B]
Preparation, recommendation, implement
ation and monitoring of the School
Development Plan
Every School Management Committee
constituted under sub- section (1)of section 21
shall prepare a School Development Plan every
year in such manner as may be prescribed.
The School Management Committee shall
prepare a School Development Plan at least three
months before the end of the financial year in
which it is first constituted under Act.
28. [B]
Preparation, recommendation, implemen
tation and monitoring of the School
Development Plan are not burdened with non
Monitor that teachers
academic duties other than those specified in
section 27. No teacher shall be deployed for any
non-educational purposes other than the
decennial population census, disaster relief
duties or duties relating in elections to the local
authority or the state legislatures or
parliament, as the case may be.
29. [B]
Preparation, recommendation, implemen
tation and monitoring of the School
Development Plan
Assess financial requirement and needs of the
RTE Act 2009, including for providing special
training facility specified in section 4. &
Entitlements of children such as free text books
and uniforms, and any other additional
requirement for fulfilling the responsibilities of
the school under Act.
30. [B]
Preparation, recommendation, implement
ation and monitoring of the School
Development Plan
The School Development Plan shall be signed by
the Chairperson or vice chairperson and
convenor of the School Management
Committee and submitted to the local
authority before the end of the financial year
in which it is prepared
31. [B]
Preparation, recommendation, implemen
tation and monitoring of the School
Development Plan
Sub committees and sub groups with co-opted
members for effective implementation &
monitoring of the School Development Plan
may be formed as requested / needed by
the SMC preferably with parents.
HM, teachers, children, educationalist, BRTEs, L
ocal Engineers, elected representatives, Civil
Society members supporting the school.
32. [C] Monitoring of utilisation of
the grants received from the
appropriate Government or Local
authority or any other source.
Prepare an annual account of receipts and
expenditure of the school. Any money
received by the said committee for the
discharge of its functions under this Act, shall
be kept in a separate account to be audited
annually.
33. [C] Monitoring of utilisation of
the grants received from the
appropriate Government or Local
authority or any other source.
The Annual account should be signed by
the chairperson or vice – chairperson
and convener of the said Committee and
make available to the local authority
within one month of their preparation
34. [D] Performance of other
functions
The State Project Director, Sarva Shiksha
Abhiyan is directed to take necessary action to
constitute a School Management Committee in
each school for planning, monitoring and
implementation of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
schemes as per RTE Act.
The School Management Committee shall play
such roles and functions as ordered from time
to time.
35. CHECK LIST FOR SMC MEMBERS
Keep a record of the enrolment data of last 3
years in school being observed.
Are the teachers going out for conducting
enrolment drives to the neighbourhood
community to get out of children/street
children into the school. We must try to ensure
every child gets into the neighbourhood
municipal school.
36. CHECK LIST FOR SMC MEMBERS
Attendance records of teachers and HMs.
Attendance records of children
Check teacher student ratio, ideally should be
1 teacher for every 30/35 children in a
classroom
37. CHECK LIST FOR SMC MEMBERS
Check if
computer lab,
science lab,
library
Are available in all school buildings and is there
any timetable being followed.
Please ensure self learning software from IIT is
loaded in all computers.
38. CHECK LIST FOR SMC MEMBERS
Are there Separate toilets for boys and girls and
proper maintenance and cleanliness of
toilets, corridors, classrooms.
Proper security arrangements and whether any
register is being maintained by them
39. CHECK LIST FOR SMC MEMBERS
Monitor the quantity, quality and delivery
dates of the 27 items being provided to
children.
The 27 items include 2 sets of uniforms, shoes
and socks, school bag, tiffin box and compass
box, water
bottle, raincoat/umbrella, notebooks, textboo
ks, pencils, crayons, etc.
40. CHECK LIST FOR SMC MEMBERS
Help the HMs to formulate systems in
ensuring all parents get sufficient notice
regarding participation in
monthly SMCmeetings, infact fix up a day
every month for the SMC meetings, e.g.. Last
Saturday of the month, etc.
Contact details of ALL SMC MEMBERS
should be available with the HMs.
41. CHECK LIST FOR SMC MEMBERS
Help HMs in maintaining the mid day meal
record on quantity and quality of meals. Check
if the mid day meal contractors are also
providing variety as specified in GR and also
biscuits/rajgira ladoo/idli sambar, etc. once a
week.
Monitor the girl child attendance incentive
scheme and fixed deposits of Rs.2500 scheme
for girl child passing out of class VII.
42. CHECK LIST FOR SMC MEMBERS
Check the Health Check up cards & monitor the
programme of Health Officers
43. CHECK LIST FOR SMC MEMBERS
List of holidays, names of mid day meal
contractor, list of primary health centres and
Government hospitals in the ward along with
telephone numbers.
44. CHECK LIST FOR SMC MEMBERS
Information on Rajiv Gandhi Accident
Insurance Scheme, helpline numbers of child
abuse, local police stations, etc. should be
displayed on notice boards in all municipal
schools.
46. COMMON PROBLEMS & DILEMMAS
FACED BY SMC MEMBERS
TEACHER: “PARENTS DONOT
COME;WHAT TO DO??? “
Solution : TELL PARENTS IN ADVANCE BY
GIVING simple HANDOUTS:--NAME & STANDARD OF CHILD,
DATE & TIME OF SMC MEETING
PARENT SIGN
PARENT PHONE NUMBER
47. COMMON PROBLEMS & DILEMMAS
FACED BY SMC MEMBERS
HM:” THIS SMC SEEMS LIKE A LOT
OF WORK FOR THE TEACHER/HM ;
WILL IT WORK???”
Solution: DON’T DO ALL THE WORK ALONE
, INVOLVE PARENTS, NGO
VOLUNTEERS, STUDENTS;AFTERALL SMC
WILL BE A SUCCESS IF ONLY EVERYBODY
PARTICIPATES
48. COMMON PROBLEMS & DILEMMAS
FACED BY SMC MEMBERS
PARENT :”IF I RAISE MY VOICE THEY
WILL PUNISH MY CHILD;
SHOULD I KEEP QUITE???”
NO! DONOT KEEP QUIET ,INFACT PARENTS
ARE 75% in number i.e. 15/20 people.
The HM, teacher and BO need your inputs. It is
YOUR CHILD & School don’t worry speak your
mind
49. COMMON PROBLEMS & DILEMMAS
FACED BY SMC MEMBERS
STUDENT : “ALL THESE
PTA & SMC ARE JUST
‘OFFICIAL’ MEETINGS.
NOBODY WANTS TO ASK
MY VIEWS “
NO! SMC is for PARENTS, TEACHERS, & students
Please give your inputs for SCHOOL PLAN, WHAT
ACTIVITES YOU WANT –
SPORTS,COMPUTERS,ENGLISH SPEAKING ETC.
52. PLEASE STRENGTHEN OUR HANDS AND BE A PART OF
CITIZENS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILD RIGHTS.
THANK YOU
Website : www.cacr.in
Email: connect.cacr@gmail.com
Face book :
https://www.facebook.com/CitizensAssociationForChildRights