BAL Panchayat Bhopal with support of NIWCYD-Bachpan Bhopal has organized a one day Children's Meet entitled Shiksha Sakalp Sabha on 26 March 2011 at Mohaniya Bal Ghar Gandhi Bhawan, Bhopal in which about 200 children from 6 districts of M.P. participated. The main objective behind the program was to have a children's Audit on the status of implementation of Right to Education Act 2009 completing one year of its enforcement in 1 April 2011. As a process of audit we have done survey of 43 Govt primary & middle schools in 3 districts of M.P. Bhopal Jabalpur & Guna through School Survey Format to assess pre & present situations of schools before & after the act was enforced. It was divided in 3 sections (1) information from Teachers (2) Information from PTA members (SMC) (3) Information from field staff . The information gathered showed no such major improvement in schools. As per the data accumulated from 43 schools surveyed some of the major facts reveled were that :-
1) There are 5 schools in Bhopal & Jabalpur districts out of 43 schools surveyed where there is no Govt. Primary or Middle school within 1 to 3 Km. radius as it was a compulsory norm in SSA & now in RTE Act 2009 also.
2) Still there are 29 schools who are not catering 25% reservation for poor children in nearby private schools.
3) There are 19 schools where teachers students ratio as per RTE is not followed. Formation of SMCs has still not initiated in any of the schools surveyed.
4) There are 11 schools where children were not given admission as per age criteria & 2 schools where admission was denied due lack of supporting documents (one of the main provision of RTE Act 2009).
The children & members of civil society organizations participated in the program shared their experience during their work & clarified their queries regarding RTE Act. Members of the BAL Panchayat also raised some significant questions all these were answered by the distinguished panelists invited that included Shri Vinod Raina Ji one of the members in drafting committee of RTE Act, shri Ramesh Dave Ji (Senior Educationist), Gurbachan Singh (Asst. Director Public Instructions Lok Shikshan Sanchnalay) & smt. Archana Sahay (State Convener NCPCR) They shared their experience during the journey of & gave fruitful suggestions how the act could be implemented & monitored at grassroot level.Children had asked several questions to shri Raina Ji Viz Why the need of Act was felt ? Why only age between 6-14 was considered why not till 18 Yrs. ? Why only 25% reservation will be given in private school why not more ? How the provisions RTE Act will be implemented in schools ? etc. Raina Ji has given satisfactory answer to all children, & he also commented that Govt. has set 3 years to fully execute the provisions as per the act & 1 year is too early to audit a process that require huge manpower & intensive planning to bring expected results, but still if we analyze present situation the process initiated till now is too slow work has to be speed up to achieve desired objective.
1) There are 5 schools in Bhopal & Jabalpur districts out of 43 schools surveyed where there is no Govt. Primary or Middle school within 1 to 3 Km. radius as it was a compulsory norm in SSA & now in RTE Act 2009 also.
2) Still there are 29 schools who are not catering 25% reservation for poor children in nearby private schools.
3) There are 19 schools where teachers students ratio as per RTE is not followed. Formation of SMCs has still not initiated in any of the schools surveyed.
4) There are 11 schools where children were not given admission as per age criteria & 2 schools where admission was denied due lack of supporting documents (one of the main provision of RTE Act 2009).
The children & members of civil society organizations participated in the program shared their experience during their work & clarified their queries regarding RTE Act. Members of the BAL Panchayat also raised some significant questions all these were answered by the distinguished panelists invited that included Shri Vinod Raina Ji one of the members in drafting committee of RTE Act, shri Ramesh Dave Ji (Senior Educationist), Gurbachan Singh (Asst. Director Public Instructions Lok Shikshan Sanchnalay) & smt. Archana Sahay (State Convener NCPCR) They shared their experience during the journey of & gave fruitful suggestions how the act could be implemented & monitored at grassroot level.Children had asked several questions to shri Raina Ji Viz Why the need of Act was felt ? Why only age between 6-14 was considered why not till 18 Yrs. ? Why only 25% reservation will be given in private school why not more ? How the provisions RTE Act will be implemented in schools ? etc. Raina Ji has given satisfactory answer to all children, & he also commented that Govt. has set 3 years to fully execute the provisions as per the act & 1 year is too early to audit a process that require huge manpower & intensive planning to bring expected results, but still if we analyze present situation the process initiated till now is too slow work has to be speed up to achieve desired objective.
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