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| Orissa: Child rights body calls on stake holder to expedite RTE execution | |
| alled upon the Orissa Government, civil society and all the stakeholders including children to play a key role in aiding the commission so as to bring changes in lives of each and every child through Right to Education (RTE). Attending a State level convention jointly organised by NCPCR and Orissa Alliance on Convention on rights of the children (OACRC) here, Santa, termed RTE as a historic act and expressed hope that it would certainly bring cha | |
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| RTE implementation at snail's pace in state | |
| Even five months after the introduction of Right to Education (RTE) Act, the state government seems to have done little to implement it. While the RTE timeline states that within six months of introduction of the Act, the student-teacher ratio should be set right and grievance committees in schools be constituted, the state government has not done either of these. The state government has also not constituted the | |
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| RTE Act ignores children from minority groups, say activists by Maitreyee Boruah | |
| Members of various NGOs and child rights activists, working for free, compulsory and quality education for underprivileged children, on Thursday lamented the fact that formulators and writers of the Right to Education (RTE) Act had failed to include children belonging to diverse minority groups. At a state-level training for various stakeholders on the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 — also known as RTE Act &md | |
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| Private school lobby trying to dilute the law, allege NGOs | |
| ists working in the field of free, compulsory and quality education for underprivileged children on Wednesday came out strongly against the private school lobby and accused it of trying to dilute the Right to Education (RTE) Act. At a state-level training for various stakeholders of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 — also known as the RTE Act —the activists alleged that the attitude of private schools o | |
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| Street children see hope in Right to Education Act by Maitreyee Boruah | |
| em. However, not all street children are lucky enough to be rescued from the pavements, and many of them are forced to end their childhood without ever getting a chance to read and write.But the Right to Education (RTE) Act can bring a sea change in the fortunes of these poor and needy children who cannot afford education. This was the message that a group of six young representatives from the APSA Dream School started by the executive direc | |
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| Street children see hope in Right to Education Act -Maitreyee Boruah | |
| them. However, not all street children are lucky enough to be rescued from the pavements, and many of them are forced to end their childhood without ever getting a chance to read and write.But the Right to Education (RTE) Act can bring a sea change in the fortunes of these poor and needy children who cannot afford education. This was the message that a group of six young representatives from the APSA Dream School started by the executive directo | |
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| Private school lobby trying to dilute the law, allege NGOs | |
| ists working in the field of free, compulsory and quality education for underprivileged children on Wednesday came out strongly against the private school lobby and accused it of trying to dilute the Right to Education (RTE) Act. At a state-level training for various stakeholders of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 — also known as the RTE Act —the activists alleged that the attitude of private schools of | |
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| Pathshalas to be exempt from Right to Education Act | |
| Traditional Sanskrit schools, known as ved pathshalas, will be exempt from the Right to Education Act and their students will be allowed to later join mainstream schooling, human resource development minister Kapil Sibal said on Tuesday. The assurance came after some of Hinduism's most revered institutions – including the Kanchi Matha, the Ahobila Matha, the Andayan Ashrama and the Arya Samaj – demanded exemption for the pat | |
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| We'll wait and talk, say ICSE schools | |
| BANGALORE: The Management Association of ICSE Schools on Thursday decided to wait and discuss the Right to Education Act Bill with the state government, before approaching court on its implementation. After a meeting with all ICSE schools on Thursday, Mohan Manghnani, president, Association of ICSE Schools in Karnataka, told TOI that they had decided to approach the Supreme Court only as the last resort. "The association will wait for the st | |
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| We'll wait and talk, say ICSE schools | |
| The Management Association of ICSE Schools on Thursday decided to wait and discuss the Right to Education Act Bill with the state government, before approaching court on its implementation. After a meeting with all ICSE schools on Thursday, Mohan Manghnani, president, Association of ICSE Schools in Karnataka, told TOI that they had decided to approach the Supreme Court only as the last resort. "The association will wait for the st | |
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