The Model Rules for the Right to Education (RTE) Act have been approved by the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Kapil Sibal. They have been circulated to the State Governments in the meeting of the State Education Secretaries for SSA and School Education, here today. They will shortly be put up on the HRD Ministry Website.

The Model Rules consist of eight PARTS and an appendix. The first part is an introduction and contains relevant definitions. The second part is on Special Training for the purposes of the first proviso to section 4 of the RTE. Part III is on Duties of State government, local authority including Areas or limits for the purposes of section 6 of the RTE.
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Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resource Development, released, the ‘DISE Flash Statistics-2008-09’ which is a progress report towards Universalisation of Elementary Education in India. This report has been prepared by the National University of Educational Planning and Administration(NEUPA). NUEPA has created a comprehensive database on elementary education in India known as District Information System for Education (DISE). The project covers both primary and upper primary schools/sections of all the districts of the country. The MIS Units are now operational both at the district and state levels and are providing vital information for policy formulation and preparation of district elementary education plans. DISE has drastically reduced the time-lag in the availability of educational statistics which is now down from 7-8 years to less than a year at the national level and only a few months at the district and state levels.

To further improve the quality of data, it has now been made mandatory for all the states to check the data on five percent random sample basis through an independent agency each year. States are advised to initiate corrective measures in the light of the findings of sample checking of data.

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