What are the challenges of RTE?

This question is to be answered on the basis of your own understanding, experience and thoughts. It is strongly recommended that you prepare the solution on your own. However, a sample solution has been provided for your reference.

A few of the challenges of RTE are as follows:

(i) Financial constraints should not prevent a child from completing elementary education.

(ii) Providing for schoolteachers at 1:30 teacher - pupil ratio at the primary school and 1:35 ratio at the upper primary level.

(iii) The norms for the schools in the Act include one room for every teacher, subject wise teachers, toilets and drinking water, a library and a playground within three years.

(iv) The Right to Education (RTE) Act has three basic goals:

(a) bringing children of marginalised sections into the ambit of school education;

(b) ensuring that all schools and their teachers meet some specified norms; and

(c) ensuring that all children receive quality schooling free from any kind of discrimination.