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Paper Title : Compliance with the RTE 2009 Guidelines in the Basic Infrastructure of Primary Schools in Aizawl

Authors : Andrea Coutinho

Abstract

Efforts to strengthen the elementary education system in India had marginally progressed after the Mid-Day Meal scheme was introduced in 1995, because the regular attendance, the enrolment and primary school learning of at least 12 crore Indian children, had drastically improved. The implementation of Sarva Shikshan Abhiyan in 2001, increased school enrolment and decreased the percentage of out-of-school children. The 86th Constitutional Amendment gave us the Right to Education Act 2009, which finally made free and compulsory education, a fundamental right of all children from age 6 and 14 years, in a neighborhood school. Later, with PM-Poshan and Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, more equitable and quality elementary education is expected by citizens. The researcher studied the infrastructure of ten government primary schools in faraway Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram; in order to understand the extent of RTE implementation in government primary schools. This study focuses on primary observational and survey data collected in October 2022. Although many urban schools had good infrastructure, the results of this qualitative research showed that there were insufficient separate toilets for girls and boys, little access to playgrounds, inadequate computers for teaching-learning purposes (computer-aided instruction) and for official administration, besides inadequate library rooms and library books.

Keywords: Primary schools, Right to Education Act 2009, Infrastructure, Compliance

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Compliance with the RTE 2009 Guidelines in the Basic Infrastructure of Primary Schools in Aizawl

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Title of the Journal : XAVIERIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE - A Peer Reviewed Interdisciplinary Journal.

Frequency : Biannual

eISSN No. : 2583-357X

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Publisher : St.Xavier’s Institute of Education, Mumbai

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Starting year : 2022

First Published : March 2022

Subject : Education - Interdisciplinary

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Vol. 2 Issue 2 published on 7th November 2023

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