Tag: RTE
RTE failures in Odisha
Students at the Repur Primary School in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha are being forced to study in a school that is unsafe. The mid-day meals are prepared in unhealthy environment, toilets don’t function and the state of classrooms is degenerate, reports Community Correspondent Anupama Sathy. The back of the school opens to a...
No facilities to learn
The Right to Education Act 2010 ensures that schools provide basic facilities relating to education such as an adequate number of teachers, midday meals, drinking water and toilets. Not too much to ask right? Wrong. Welcome to overpopulated, corrupt India. This is a scenario repeatedly reported by our VV-Correspondents. However,...
The Difficulty Checklist
This story is from Sadpur village of Batiyagarh block in Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh. The government middle school in Sadpur village lacks four things: 1: A separate toilet for boys and girls. 2: A boundary wall. 3: A playground. 4:A library While filming, VV-PACS Correspondent Artibai Valmik spoke to...
The Ramshackle School
The primary school in Khutdobara village of Kondagaon district in Chattisgarh is one of the many examples of poor implementation of the Right to Education Act. The building has been in a dilapidated conditions for years. It requires a long list of repairs among which the broken ceiling is a...
The Miracle School
Our videos on the Right to Education in India have uncovered a number of schools in the most abysmal of conditions. Often the very people running them are the root of the issue. Today’s video is different. It is the story of a school that is running against all odds,...
Quality Education Required
The Right to Education Act came into effect in India on 1st April 2010. A few things that the Act envisions for all schools in India are: · Clean drinking water for all students · Hygienic, separate toilets for girls and boys · Library for studying · Playground It also...
Education Outside the Box
‘According to the Right to Education ( RTE ) Act, primary school should provide students with basic infrastructure but students of Primary School in Kawajhar Rayyat in Madhya Pradesh had to sit outside during winters as there are no enough class rooms for students to sit in’ reports our community...