RTE Act might be difficult to implement : Tripura Education Minister

Updated on: Saturday, October 22, 2011

The Right to Education Act would be difficut to implement in totality because of a few of its conditions, Tripura School Education Minister Tapan Chakraborty said.

The minister, who spoke at the National Advisory Council meeting at New Delhi, said factors like infrastructural gaps, teacher-training and no-detention policy were likely to lead to serious problems in the days to come.

"In the schedule of the act, there is specific mention of infrastructural requirements for all schools at the elementary state. For states with resource constraints like Tripura, it will be very difficult to make provision of all infrastructural requirements within the timeframe fixed by the act," Chakraborty told reporters here.

Stating that Tripura supported education guarantee for each child, he said, "to meet the requirement of minimum 45 teaching hours per week, we will have to fully segregate the classrooms for elementary stage from secondary sections. For this a large number of additional classrooms will have to be constructed."

In such a situation, availability of land in urban and semi-urban areas would be a very serious problem, he said.

Challenge would also be posed in creating permanent sources for providing safe and adequate drinking water to all children particularly in the hilly areas and playgrounds in urban areas, he said and sought funds from the Centre for assistance.

RTE Act might be difficult to implement : Tripura Education Minister

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