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PANJIM: Union Minister for Human Resource Development (MHRD) Prakash Javadekar on Friday said the government is looking to change the existing Right to Education Policy (RTE) after which the State government will be allowed to decide on the No Detention Policy in their schools.
“If we have a look today, a lot of states are demanding to allow detention of students because everyone goes up to VIII standard without failing and then later there is huge pressure in the IX standard because they have not learnt anything and as a result they are detained and because of this we can’t waste an entire generation,” Javadekar said addressing the gathering at Cujira Integrated Complex.
“The Union government will allow states to decide to detain students after giving them a fair chance. They will be assessed first in March and then in June. It will not be detention for the sake of detention but about capabilities,” he said
He further said that RTE in some states is a disaster and that he has seen schools in some states that have turned into midday meal schools, where coming, eating and going home has become the trend.
“What you find is that VI standard student cannot do maths of III standard and VII standard student cannot read IV standard lessons,” Javadekar added.
The minister said the union government is also in the process of drafting the educational policy to include the community. “New rules are being drafted wherein when government constructs a school in a village, the compound wall would be built by the villagers because we need to involve the community.”
