The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act or Right to Education Act (RTE), describes the modalities of the importance of free and compulsory education for children between 6 and 14 in India under Article 21a of the Indian Constitution.
Underutilization of RTE provisions:
1. Retention and mainstreaming of student doesn't get attention of Education Bureaucracy. This is very much visible in the form of child labour around us.
2. No focus upon maintenance of Pupil Teacher Ratio (PTR) and teacher-working hour norms.
3. Buildings and infrastructure standards not followed
4. School-working days.
5. Less focus upon value education.
How they can be utilized for its better implementation:
1. Track the dropouts with the help of local government and digitalization of records. No detention policy must be implemented in its full spirit .
2. Teacher at centre State: State government should focus upon maintaining optimum PTR along with this they should invest in capacity building of teachers as teacher is the most critical input in education.
3. Enhance Accessibility :RTE made it compulsory to provide toilet facilities(it improves attendance of girls), clean drinking water, safe environment etc.
4. Decentralisation: Diversity is the feature of Indian society and and this is visible in diverse local festivals, harvest season within single state hence the authority to decide school calender must be vested in local government so that it can help to improve attendance.
5. It provides for development of curriculum in consonance with the values enshrined in the Constitution, and which would ensure the all-round development of the child, building on the child’s knowledge, potentiality and talent and making the child free of fear, trauma and anxiety through a system of child friendly and child centred learning.
CONCLUSION;As suggested by Wilbur Ross it's important to have a sound idea, but the really important thing is the implementation. So State must focus upon its implementation components more.
