Right to Education Success or Failure
                     Right to Education: 
Success or Failure?
INTRODUCTION
Education is the primary and basic requirement for 
development of a person. The government has taken the 
step to root the Right to Education Act (RTE) on 4th of 
August, 2009 because of the high illiteracy rates.
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Right to Education Act (RTE)
This act provides compulsory elementary education to 
every child of the age group of 6 to 14 years. Although 
the government had good intentions in mind, this Act 
has a few drawbacks along with the benefits.
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Education to the under-privileged children
The RTE Act is primarily for providing education to the 
under-privileged children, and as it requires no schooling 
cost, parents are sending their kids to schools without 
any burden.
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Literacy rate
Today, approximately 35 million to 60 million children 
are not in schools. As the Act promises education to be 
provided to every child, there is a possibility of a 
massive increase on the literacy rate of India. Along with 
education, employment of teachers and staffs also seem 
to increase.
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Educating the youth
India has almost 19% of the world’s children and is 
ranked as third in the count of illiteracy. The RTE Act is 
an exercise to increase this rank and move towards an 
educated India, starting with educating the youth.
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Necessity of pre-schooling
As the Act states compulsory education from the age of 
6, preliminary schools take advantages. They are leaving 
no scopes to ask for lump-sum donations for pre-
schooling of children. The law holders overlooked and 
ignored importance and necessity of pre-schooling.
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Infrastructure
The RTE prioritize the rule of imposing education on 
children and on the infrastructure of schools rather than 
on the quality of education that the student are to 
receive. The appointment of teachers in schools are 
lenient and not quite up to the mark.
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Reservation
The non government/private schools are pressurized 
with the replacement of 25% of their seats with non-
aided students for the RTE implementation. The 
government asked a total of 204 private schools, 
including those offering CBSE and ICSE syllabi, in the 
district to reserve seats.
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Protection of Child Rights
The UNICEF and the State Commission for Protection of 
Child Rights has recently conducted a survey. They state 
that there is no much of improvement in admission of 
students as well as in education since the time the act 
has been implemented.
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Conclusion
Although the government had good and beneficial 
motives with the Act, the implementation did not turn 
out to be so. There are loopholes and flaws in the Act. 
These flaws need to be rectified to achieve the aims and 
motives of the Act.
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