प्रयत्न - 'School of Excellence'
All India Registered Society under Societies Registration Act 1860
"भारत निर्माण की दिशा में एक सार्थक कदम"
“There is a great role of ‘Education’ in development of humanity; it not only creates good human being but gives great citizens to country”
Congratulations to you all that from 1st April 2010 all children of our country will get free and compulsory education in neighborhood school of their town or city.
Now it is the responsibility of the govt. that each n every child will be enrolled and will access the education without any cost bearing by their guardians or parents and ‘state’ will bear all cost n pain in this journey.
See how big change can come with this step; what power we have got. Now every child have to be ‘in’ the school and now it has become his/her legal right!! It is Act now!! And if we find any child roaming here and there and not even enrolled we can challenge it to the court! We can check and challenge the progress of school, their quality standards, their bad infrastructure and even their teacher’s track record.
But it is unfortunate that education has always not been among the top in priority list of this country. Even see the today’s newspapers RTI implementation news is published after the 6th or 8th page.
See the process, statistics and willingness of govt. in this regard:
1) Year 1950 – our constitution gives a clear indication that ‘state shall provide the free and compulsory education to all children of country with in next 10 years’
2) Year 2002 – (after 50 years of that statement) – an constitutional amendment (96th ) was made to make education a fundamental right of common citizen of country.
3) Year 2005 – after three years a common bill was prepared and presented in the cabinet of central govt. Had been referred to experts and committees for their kind consideration and possible changes
4) Year 2006 – It was presented again in cabinet and again it is referred to parliamentary committees for amendments due to lack of consensus on this ‘issue’
5) Year 2009 – Finally it was presented in both Parliament houses and somehow it was passed with lack of further possibilities, necessitates and provisions to add.
What lacking –
1) Includes only age group 6 to 14; what about the below 6 yrs child?.. and what about after 14th? i.e. after giving elementary education till class 8th when the time comes to make a building on strong base govt. will not be there to take him/her further.
2) Problems in infrastructure – more than 10 lakh primary schools have not enough space and resources to accommodate such large children.
3) Are there available primary teachers sufficient to teach? Are they qualified enough? Even thousands are primary teacher posts are vacant till now and schools are running with 1 or 2 teachers??
4) Thousands of NGOs/volunteers/community leaders who are already involved in education/health/environment sector can’t be a helping hand for state. No initiation (provisions) has shown by the govt. in the Act.
5) Budget – need more than 40K crores and projected only less than 30K crores. They know, it is less but they couldn’t (?)
Despite of these challenges the important thing is how common person behaves on this implementation – is he ready to participate in the process of nation building? Should it be the sole responsibility of state? We all will benefit of this act then why not we indulge in this process for every child of our surrounding.
Law governs Education and law is equal for everyone. And now, it is the time for every child to get support to become good human being, intellectual and responsible citizen.
Are we all ready?
