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Education Act to be notified on April 1- 13-Feb-2010
Months after the Right to Education Act (RTE) was passed by Parliament, the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry is set to notify it on April 1. The ministry is also learnt to have zeroed in on a 65:35 Centre-state fund sharing formula to implement the ambitious provisions of the Act, it is learnt.
Passed by Parliament in August 2009, the Act that promises to provide free and compulsory education to all children aged between 6 and 14 has been stuck over the Centre and state negotiations on bearing the implied financial burden: a staggering Rs 1.71 lakh crore for the next five years. HRD Minister Kapil Sibal has cleared the notification of the Act.
A huge allocation to facilitate the implementation of the Act is also in the offing in the next Union Budget, say sources. The model rules for the implementation of the Act were approved by the HRD ministry and circulated to all states last month in a step to enable the Act’s roll-out.
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