Making SDG-4 a reality through the Right To Education Act
Basava Purushottam
Vet. Medicine||IAS|| IPS||IPoS||UC Berkeley||Oxford||Chevening Fellow||KVPY Fellow||
In order to decipher the vision of National system of Education, the education policies of 1968, 1986 and 1992 (revised) avowed the principle of Free and Compulsory education up to the age 14 which was then translated into the Constitution (Eighty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2002 inserted as Article 21-A in the Constitution of India that every child (6 -14 years) has a right to equitable and quality education in a school which satisfies certain essential norms and standards. The Act was instituted as a transformative step for quality improvement of education and included progressive concepts of neighborhood schools, mapping of responsibilities for quality education, age-appropriate learning, continuous and comprehensive evaluation, ban on corporal punishment, no-detention, formation of school management committees and setting their accountability, standards such as appropriate pupil-teacher ratios, infrastructural norms, minimum teacher requirements, and others were defined.
Though the above-stated inputs have resulted in the increased enrollment of students visualizing an increase in GER at primary level from 42.6% in 1950-51 to 94.4% in 2017-18, and from 12.7% to 76.6% in 2008 – 2009 to 90.8% in case of Upper Primary level. However, the decade of 2020 calls for a practical and realistic emphasis on inputs and more focus on the achievement of educational outcomes. The schools should be provided with the flexibility to make their own decision based on local needs to decide on inputs, but without in any way compromising on the requirements of safety, security, and pleasant and productive learning space as stated in the Draft New Education Policy.
Thus, necessitating a comprehensive and detailed review of The RTE (Amendment) Act, 2019, whereby all students, particularly students from underprivileged and disadvantaged sections, shall have not only, free and compulsory access to high quality and equitable schooling from early childhood education (age 3 onwards) through higher secondary education (i.e., until Grade 12) but are also able to achieve educational outcomes. The process will accelerate India’s progress for the achievement of SDG - 4. (Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all)
Public policy , Governance, Ethics, Climate Change ,Sustainability independent External Monitor (IEM) | Monitoring Compliances in Procurement of PSUs
4 年Outstanding
Public policy , Governance, Ethics, Climate Change ,Sustainability independent External Monitor (IEM) | Monitoring Compliances in Procurement of PSUs
4 年I agree old school education or community Education system or Gurukul promoted shaping of over all development of a student personality, of a child unlike lopsided development of child personality in present Modern education system . That was Modi’s operandi of British government in other areas of development called loo sided development or imperialist development ...ethical component , respect to parents , institutions they students belong to , respect to teachers as Guru and respect to elderly in a village / community they live in , respect to environment so that they understand what is inter generational equity .. my ??above comments are on your recent article on Involving parents in school affairs Regards Dr Parvez Hayat
Public policy , Governance, Ethics, Climate Change ,Sustainability independent External Monitor (IEM) | Monitoring Compliances in Procurement of PSUs
4 年Great writer when next I visit you I shall give a copy of SAGE - IIPA book so that you follow a format they accept , u need to give the source/ bibliography at end .. and IPJ then you get regd as Google Scholar .. in your ministry like me another Google scholar is Madhu Ranjan JS ( A) you may consult him
Cloud Transformation Lead/ERP SME
5 年Very well written and now public school should focus more on outcome based approach by running metrics to establish success criteria and measure against that and in next decade or so there should not be room for growth of corporate schools. I am not against corporate schools but now it is time for public schools to focus on pragmatic approach and compete with them as basic enrollment issues are fading away..
CEO, Founder @ HireQuotient - agent AI for seamless outbound (Forbes 30 Entrepreneur)
5 年Amazing read!