Lok Sabha Question No. 210 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-06-24
Subject: Right to Education
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Shashi Tharoor

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 210 TO BE ANSWERED ON 24.06.2019

## Right to Education

## 210. DR. SHASHI THAROOR:

- Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state: (a)  whether  the  Government  has  asked  the  State  Governments  of  Goa,  Manipur,  Mizoram, Sikkim  and  Telangana  to  issue  notifications  regarding  the  admissions  under  the  Right  of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009; (b) if so, the details thereof including the dates on which such recommendations were conveyed; (c)  whether the Union Government has asked State Governments which have not notified the per child cost under the RTE, to notify the same; (d) if so, the details thereof including the dates on which such recommendations were conveyed; (e) whether the Government has undertaken a review of the working of the RTE, to ascertain as to why only a fraction of the amounts sought by the States from the Government, were actually reimbursed; and (f) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI RAMESH POKHRIYAL 'NISHANK')

(a) to (d):   33 States and UTs have already notified disadvantaged groups and weaker sections which are eligible for admission in Private unaided Schools under Section 12 (1) (c).  Telangana is the only State which is yet to notify Disadvantaged groups and Weaker Sections. Besides this, 15 States and UTs have notified Per Child Cost for reimbursement to private unaided schools against  admission  of  children  belonging  to  disadvantaged  groups  and  weaker  sections  under Section 12(1)(c).  The reimbursement from Central Government to States and UTs has started from 2014-15 onwards.

Ministry  of  Human  Resource  Development  (MHRD)  vide  letter  no  12-5/2016-EE.11  dated 25.05.2016 requested States and UTs to carry out a ground assessment of private unaided schools across the country to ensure compliance with provisions of Section 12 (1)(c) of RTE Act, 2009. Further,  MHRD,  in  various meetings like  State  Education  Secretaries  conference, Project Approval Board Meetings, Regional Workshops, reviews and emphasis on the proper implementation of the provisions of RTE Act.

(e)&(f):  The  RTE  Act  under  Section  12  (2)  also  makes  provision  of  reimbursement  of expenditure  to  schools  providing  free  and  compulsory  elementary  education  as  specified  in clause  (c)  of  sub-section  (l)  of  Section  12.  The  school  shall  be  reimbursed  expenditure  so incurred by it to the extent of per-child-expenditure incurred by the State, or the actual amount charged  from  the  child;  whichever  is  less,  in  such  manner  as  may  be  prescribed.  Samagra Shiksha an Integrated Scheme for School Education has been launched by Government of India from 2018-19, by subsuming the three erstwhile Centrally Sponsored Schemes of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and Teacher Education (TE). The  scheme  provides  for  support  to  the  States  and  UTs  for  implementation  of  the  RTE  Act, including reimbursement of expenditure incurred by them for class I to VIII.

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