UP has backed the proposal of the Union HRD ministry for amending the Right to Education (RTE) Act to enable yearly examinations for Class one to eight and detention of poor performers.
The basic education minister Ram Govind chowdhary said that he told the Union HRD minister Smriti Irani that the UP government would submit its detailed view on this issue by the end of December.
The Union HRD Minister was in lucknow on Monday for a day long visit to meet the education ministers of UP, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. She held long meeting with the education ministers of the four states for ascertaining their views ahead of formulating New Education policy. She said that the Centre would settle on the new national educational policy only after taking into account the views of all state governments, academicians and child psychologists.
UP’s basic education minister Ram Govind chowdhary however said `` before sending the view point of the state government on this issue, the basic education department will seek the opinion of the field level officers of the department at the development block level’’. They have been asked to file their report by the end of November, the minister added.
``We have requested all state governments to put their views in writing to us. Only after taking a comprehensive view of all written views we receive from all state governments, deliberations with academicians, institutions and child psychologists, we will reach a final conclusion,”. said the Union HRD minister.
Official sources saids the Union HRD minister said in the meeting that recently at the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) meeting, 20 state ministers had unanimously backed the need to amend the Right To Education (RTE) Act to enable yearly examinations and detention of poor performers. She added that the first draft of the new education policy, upon which they will have further deliberations on, will be out by December..“I will be visiting certain institutes (before the final draft) across the country to understand the need of the parents and students about the policy in making a pan-Indian education policy,” she said.