‘Implement RTE now, plug loopholes in due course'
Even as private unaided school managements are putting up stiff resistance against the implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 from this academic year, a section of thinkers have asserted it should be implemented this year. Extend to Class 10 Pointing out the basic problems in the RTE Act, he said: “The RTE Act addresses the age group of six to 14. He also spoke about the existing “discrimination” between students studying under different syllabi, and said that the government must think of a way to make it uniform as the RTE Act does not tackle this issue. ‘Don't close schools' Poet and critic S.G. Siddaramaiah criticised the State's move to close down government schools that don't have enough student strength and pointed out that there were 1.08 lakh dropouts in primary education, most of whom had become child labourers. “The present government also closed down 89 residential schools meant for students belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.” Mr. Siddaramaiah also accused the government of implementing the RTE Act not because it wanted to, but because it had to.
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