RTE is a way forward to a more educated India

On 1st April, Right to Education was included in the fundamental rights and it was no fool’s day joke. Almost everyone agrees the importance of education in our lives. The low literacy rate in India has always been a reason to worry. Legalization of the right to education is a tool which can help each child get primary education if it is executed properly.

Giving due importance to this act, our prime minister addressed the nation and emphasized on the importance of education. Each of us can closely relate to his statement that education is the reason he is at that position in his life. Education helps us lead a better and more meaningful life and all should be given this opportunity. With 25% reservation for under privileged students in private schools, more children from weaker society would get quality education which would ensure a better life for them. If this is executed well and children are actually encouraged to go to schools, it would definitely lead to progress.

Formulating a law and allocating funds for this to various states is the first step towards progress. However, much depends on the execution. Funds have earlier been allocated for farmers and other people in need but not even half of the amount has actually reached them. More awareness needs to be created at the grass root level. Children are often treated as source of income by the weaker society. They avoid sending their children to school in fear of losing their source of income.
Alternatives need to be thought for such parents so that they shed their inhibitions and send their children to school. Only then full potential of RTE can be realized.

In India, many things can be achieved only through a law. In absence of such a law, people used to argue saying which law says they should send their children to school. Now it would be a legal binding of the parents and the school to ensure that they do their part in educating all children.

RTE has laid the roads to a more educated India. We just need to walk on that road and ensure that all children around us are benefited by this.