Sahanivasa - RTE Campaign
Sahanivasa - RTE Campaign
Project Brief: This project is an awareness campaign through which parents and youth in villages are given sensitized about the importance of education as well as their legal rights under RTE and facilitate grassroots level people driven intervention in
Project Type: Community Awareness Programs (description)
Primary Focus: creating resources (description)
Supporting Chapter Contact:
Boston
Project Type: Community Awareness Programs (description)
Primary Focus: creating resources (description)
Secondary Focus: to go to formal school
Area: RuralSupporting Chapter Contact:
Boston
Status: CLOSED - ENDED
Project Steward: Rajeev Annaluru
Project Partner(s): Chennaiah Poguri
Project Address: Sahanivasa - RTE Campaign
Post Box No.47 D. No. 22-977/1,
Moruganipalle Road,
Andhra Pradesh 517001
Stewarding Chapter: Boston
Project Steward: Rajeev Annaluru
Project Partner(s): Chennaiah Poguri
Project Address: Sahanivasa - RTE Campaign
Post Box No.47 D. No. 22-977/1,
Moruganipalle Road,
Andhra Pradesh 517001
Stewarding Chapter: Boston
| Jun 2014 | Boston | USD 4101 |
Total = $4101
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act also popularly known as the Right to Education Act (RTE), was enacted on 4 August 2009, which made education a fundamental right of every child in India between the ages of 6 and 14. This is a ground breaking act that has set the base line norms of various important parameters of education including the infrastructure schools should have, mid-day meals, admission norms, free space for underprivileged kids in private run schools etc.
Although the act came into force on 1 April 2010, the overall condition of government schools in most parts of india remains way below par. To understand the seriousness of the issue, Sahanivasa did a survey of the government school infrastructure in 2013 using RTI requests with in a pilot sample set of 86 government schools and 7 government hostels in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. It was found that 91% of schools do not have toilets, 95% of schools do not have any sitting arrangements like desks, 68% of schools did not have electricity, 60% of schools do not have drinking water facilities etc.
Sahanivasa through its long history of participation in peoples movements, understands that an effective way of improving the condition of schools is by sensitizing the village population about RTE. This project is essentially an awareness campaign through which parents and youth in villages are given sensitized about the importance of education as well as their legal rights under RTE and facilitate grassroots level people driven intervention in better implementation of the act.
Although the act came into force on 1 April 2010, the overall condition of government schools in most parts of india remains way below par. To understand the seriousness of the issue, Sahanivasa did a survey of the government school infrastructure in 2013 using RTI requests with in a pilot sample set of 86 government schools and 7 government hostels in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. It was found that 91% of schools do not have toilets, 95% of schools do not have any sitting arrangements like desks, 68% of schools did not have electricity, 60% of schools do not have drinking water facilities etc.
Sahanivasa through its long history of participation in peoples movements, understands that an effective way of improving the condition of schools is by sensitizing the village population about RTE. This project is essentially an awareness campaign through which parents and youth in villages are given sensitized about the importance of education as well as their legal rights under RTE and facilitate grassroots level people driven intervention in better implementation of the act.