New Delhi: The Biju Janata Dal MP Anubhav Mohanty Thursday sought details regarding the implementation of Right to Education (RTE) act at the grassroots level.
Speaking in the Rajya Sabha, Mohanty asked the Union Human Resource Development Minister whether any monitoring mechanism is being built in the states to oversee the implementation of RTE Act and also sought details regarding the amount spent by the states.
“As per the Right to Education Act, students belonging to economically weaker sections are entitled to take admission in private schools. Is any monitoring mechanism being built in respective states with public representatives to oversee that it is being implemented fully and what amount has been spent by different states in this regard during the last two years,” Mohanty asked.
Replying to the question posed by the BJD legislator, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said that in the last four years, the number of students studying under this scheme has improved by 50 per cent.
“It has gone from up 20 lakhs to 33 lakhs. But the main problem is that the states do not give full information on three things. First, how many students are studying in private schools? Therefore, it is not known whether the 25 per cent has been filled or not? Today, there are 2,44,000 private schools. Out of which, 6,000 are minority schools in which there is no reservation for EWS,” Javadekar said.
