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Oxfam demands full implementation of the RTE Act within next 3 years: Haq Banta Hai

Oxfam demands full implementation of the RTE Act within next 3 years: Haq Banta Hai

Mar 15, 2015, at 06:45 pm

The historic Right to Education (RTE) Act came into force in April 2010. The Act provisions for 8 years of free and compulsory education for all the children between 6 and 14 years. Thanks to RTE Act, today 199 million children are in school and studying. However, still 6 million children are out of school and majority (75%) of those out of school children belong to Dalit (32.4%), Tribal (16.6%) and Muslim (25.7%) communities alone.