RTE not implemented in state: AISF
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, April 03 2011:
Even though the whole country excluding Jammu and Kashmir had adopted the Right to Education Act in 2010, the act is not being implemented properly in the state.
Even the employees of the state education department which is the implementing authority of the act do not know about the act, alleged the All India Students Federation (AISF)
today.
Speaking in a press conference held at the office of AISF situated in Irabot Bhavan, BT Road, president Kh Inaobi said that the act which gives free and compulsory education to children of 6 to 14 years has not been implemented properly in the state.
Students are provided with free books, uniforms, bags and other learning aids by the government under the RTE Act.
Unfortunately the state government is not taking up necessary action even as the academic session 2011-12 has begun.
Guardians who are ready to buy the textbooks could not buy due to the unavailability of textbooks in the market.
Under the Act no student can be charged admission fee and face admission test.
However in Manipur government schools are charging admission fees from the students.
Condemning the act of government schools, he demanded to the state government to take up immediate necessary action and refund all the admission fees which were collected from the students by the schools.
Appealing to the government to organise mass awareness programmes to aware the public about the Act, AISF warns of various type of agitations against the government if they failed to implement the act fully in the state at the earliest.