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have shown that at any given time, 30% of

teachers at government schools are absent

answer the following questions as per the

from their classrooms. While the Act

understanding of the passage (Question

No. 46 to 50)

mandates the number of teaching hours per

year, it does not address the lack of

The Right of Children to Free and

accountability on the part of the teacher or

Compulsory Education Act, 2009

the system if the mandated number of

guarantees to all children within the age-

hours is not actually provided.

group 6-14 years the right to education in

Other problems include

proper schools with trained teachers. It was

discrimination on a caste basis, violence

a long, long time coming, but this historic

and abuse of children, and discrimination

legislation, despite the many loopholes, has

against girls. The latter is not often overt

the power to transform the lives of millions

but a result of certain existing situations:

of poor Indian children who have so far

been deprived of the opportunity to make

for example, 27% of schools do not have

even one female teacher, resulting in a lack

their lives better than those of their parents.

of confidence on the part of parents,

Since Independence, elementary

especially of older girls. Fifty percent of

eduction has grown into a multi-headed

schools do not have separate toilets for

monster of sorts, with its own caste system

girls. As a result, it is estimated that for

of service-providers – government

every 100 girls who enrol in school in rural

ordinary, government elite, private elite,

India, 40 will reach Class IV, 18 will reach

private-run but government-funded, and so

Class VIII, nine will reach Class IX, and

on. It has provided children of the

only one will make it to Class XII.

privileged classes a springboard to greater

privilege, while doing nothing to eradicate

And finally, and more significantly,

child labour or provide poor children with

what are children learning ? The stated aim

even basic literacy, let alone the broader

of elementary education is to provide the

gains of education.

child with the knowledge, skills and

qualities to become an independent,

Broadly, the vast majority of the

thinking, creative human being. But a

population, both rural and urban, send their

report shows that on the ground we are far

children to government-run schools as

from even providing them the basic

these are free, that is, they do not charge

literacy skills. This is the biggest challenge

fees. However, given that the quality of

now that children are increasingly going to

education in these schools is usually quite

be brought into the mainstream – can the

poor, the fast-increasing middle class

system help them develop into

prefer to send their children to privately-

independent, thinking, creative human

run schools.

beings ? Or will it turn out barely literate

The new Act addresses some of these

automatons that have lost their innate

issues, but not the more important concern

ability to question and explore ?

– teacher absenteeism. Various studies

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