Domain Bulletins

Education & Children – Volume 30

Right to Education and its Progress So Far 

At the time of independence, India had a very low literacy rate, especially of women. The Right to Education (RTE), upon its inception was able to improve the status of education of women in India. The average year of schooling for girls in the country tripled, reaching 4.7% in 2018 from 1.7% in 1990. Not only girls, the RTE has been able to bring up the enrollment rates across all sections of the society in the...