Right to Education by 2012: Meghalaya Education minister

Updated on: Friday, June 04, 2010

Shillong: The Meghalaya Government is planning to fully implement the Right to Education Act in the State by 2012, education minister Ampareen Lyngdoh has said.

The government has prepared a roadmap for implementing the Act and financial details in this regard are yet to be worked out, she said at the assembly yesterday.
The salient features include adoption of rules for the right of children to free and compulsory education besides constitution of an authority for regulating protection of child rights, she said.

"Constitution of a state advisory council besides restructuring of number of school days is also on the anvil," she said, adding, "Rules will be taken up for final approval
by Government".

Other salient features would be demarcation of neighbourhoods as per RTE norms and designation of local authority with administrative control, besides reconstitution
of school management committee with 75 per cent members being parents, the minister said.

"GIS mapping of all elementary schools for identifying the resource gap, construction of additional classroom, enrollment of all children in the age group of 6 to 14 and improvement in quality education by adequately training teachers and improving school infrastructure," she added to the list of features.

Right to Education by 2012: Meghalaya Education minister

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