Implement RTE, promote failed students, schools told

Source:indiaedunews:April 02, 2010



New Delhi: As the Right To Education (RTE) Act became a fundamental right of every child from yesterday, all the schools received a circular from the Directorate of Education (DoE), Delhi government, stating them to promote all those students who failed in classes VI, VII and VIII, officials said.

They further added that the circular was required to inform the schools of the provision since most of them in Delhi declared their results before the RTE was implemented.

V.P. Singh, state project director of the Delhi government said that, "The RTE makes it necessary for every child to be educated at least till his middle class."

In the circular, the principals have also been asked to prepare a road map for three years along with the list of more teachers required for its implementation.

According to the provision of the Act, the teacher-student ratio in a school should be not more than 1:30. There is thus an acute shortage of teachers to fulfill the criteria at present.

According to the sources, the Delhi government schools have approximately 800 TGT, 1109 PGT and 175 principal's posts lying vacant.

"It has been intimated to the principals that a student should be promoted if he fails on margins. If at all he needs to work hard in some subject, he should be given another chance and should be placed in the category of compartment," said the sources.

The city government has submitted a proposal to the Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry as far as the question of developing the infrastructure goes. The decision to sanction the funds is likely to be taken in July, the sources said.