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New Delhi:
The Economic
Survey for 2009-10 presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in
Parliament on Thursday states that the universalisation of
Elementary Education of adequate quality to ensure satisfactory
learning standards is an objective that needs to be pursued
vigorously.
The survey points out that the Right
of children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 to provide for
free and compulsory education for all children of the age 6 to 14
years, was published in the Gazette of India on august 27, 2009 and
has the following salient features:
Every child of the age 6-14 years shall have a right to free and
compulsory education in a neighbourhood school till completion of
elementary education.
The appropriate Government and the
local authority shall establish, within such area or limits of
neighbourhood, a school where it is not so established, within a
period of three years.
The Central and State Governments
shall have concurrent responsibility for providing funds for
carrying out the provisions of this Act.
It shall be the duty of every parent
or guardian to admit or cause to be admitted his or her child or
ward to an elementary education in the neighbourhood school.
No school or person shall, while
admitting a child, collect any capitation fee and subject the child
or his or her parents or guardians to any screening procedure.
No teacher shall engage himself or
herself in private tuition or private teaching activity.
The Central Government shall
constitute by notification a National Advisory Council, consisting
of members to be appointed from amongst persons having knowledge and
practical experience in the field of elementary education and child
development for advising the Central Government on implementation of
the provisions of the Act in an effective manner.
The survey also states that the
Rashtrihya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA), a new centrally
sponsored scheme, to enhance access to secondary education and
improve its quality was launched in March 2009.
(ANI)
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