PROBLEM STATEMENT: What needs to be done to ensure effective implementation of Right to Education (RTE) Act?

Context to the problem statement

Just when you were rushing to attend your class...the headline of a newspaper caught your attention...

'States not ready

The primary target of the RTE Act was provision of schools and basic infrastructure and nine infra requirements were listed in the original Act Currently, less than 10% schools in India have met these nine requirements India has 13 lakh elementary level schools and close to 8 million out-ofschool children' Far from achieving the goal of infrastructure across elementary school sector in India, the Centre is all set to extend the deadline of the ambitious Right to Education Act by two years. Top sources in the Ministry of Human Resources Development today confirmed that the original deadline of March 31, 2013 given to schools to create infrastructure required for the delivery of free and compulsory elementary education would have to be extended until March 31, 2015 considering the unpreparedness of states to meet the original goals. The Ministry of HRD is now preparing to move an official amendment to the RTE Act to enable the extension of deadline so schools get time to create infrastructure. We hope to move the amendment in the winter session of Parliament, Ministry sources said.

WHAT ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DO? Considering yourself against the deferral of deadline from 2013 to 2015, and left with internet as the only resource available with you. You are supposed to use the internet as a tool and describe strategies that you would use to ensure that the original deadline given to schools is adhered to.

JUDGING PARAMENTERS: a. The case study event to be judged by CRY b. Parameters on which your entry would be judged-- Strategies should be creative, realistic, achievable and impactful.

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