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91% RTE retention in 4 states; Odisha leads with 97%, but gaps remain in fee support & digital access: Report

September 11, 2025 9:11 am

The report noted that challenges persist in the digital age. While 81 per cent of the RTE students form friendships across socio-economic lines, questions remain about their access to digital learning tools and technology-enhanced education that increasingly defines quality schooling.

Why Supreme Court wants to revisit Right to Education exemption for minority schools

September 02, 2025 6:17 pm

Enacted in 2009, the Right to Education introduced several norms, like a quota in schools for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. However, it allowed some exemptions.

Supreme Court directs states to survey orphaned children denied education

August 08, 2025 9:06 am

With the survey and data collection going on, the bench asked for simultaneous efforts to ensure deserving children got admissions in neighbourhood schools.

Right to education is non-negotiable. It shouldn’t depend on Centre-state relations

June 19, 2025 12:23 pm

The Constitution does not permit a framework where executive discretion or ideological conformity dictates the enforcement of rights that are meant to be universal and inalienable

Amidst heat waves, the plight of Delhi’s street children demands greater attention

June 17, 2025 12:30 pm

Their undeniably precarious condition becomes worse with the intense heat, dust, and pollution. In the extreme heat of summer, they are exposed to the risk of dehydration, exhaustion, heatstroke, respiratory disease, kidney disease and other health hazards

RTE quotas have failed to make school education inclusive

June 05, 2025 5:34 pm

They have ensured neither good quality education nor a reduction in the segregation of underprivileged students. One major reason is poor stakeholder management

The cure to exorbitant fees in elite schools — fix the government school

April 25, 2025 7:33 pm

Only a good quality public education system can offer an alternative to private schools.

Delhi-NCR schools flout RTE Act, detain students in Classes 6 and 7

April 21, 2025 8:48 am

"The amended rules allow schools to detain students in Classes 5 and 8 only, that too after giving them additional opportunity for re-examination within two months from the date of declaration of results," advocate and education activist Ashok Aggarwal told PTI.

Maharashtra RTE admissions: Concerns over unclaimed seats as second waiting list round begins

April 09, 2025 10:29 pm

This year, 3,05,152 applications were received for 1,09,087 seats across 8,863 schools

Rajasthan RTE Admission Lottery Result 2025 Released: Download from rajpsp.nic.in

April 10, 2025 9:27 am

Rajasthan RTE Lottery Result 2025 Out: The admission status under the RTE quota can be checked and downloaded from the official website – rajpsp.nic.in.

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