INDIA'S RIGHT TO EDUCATION ACT –IMPLEMENTATION AND RESPONSE

India’s, ‘The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009’, is a land mark in history. India has the
largest number of working children in the world and schooling is seen as the most effective way to combat this intergenerational
cycle poverty and violation of child rights. For elementary education, in India, many challenges lie in its existing structures of
education. In many states, the state governments, or the municipal authorities provide only a limited part of elementary
education cycle. The remaining part is often provided by a different stratum of government, and often by govt. aided and private
schools. At present, meeting even the minimum norms poses a challenge for many of the states, and efforts are underway at the
highest levels to make available the resources that would enable these states to respect the rights of the child to education.