It has been a little over seven years that one of the most comprehensive and radical education measures in modern history was introduced -- the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009. The Act envisaged, the creation of an infrastructure at the primary and elementary levels of education that would aim at removing all conceivable hurdles which stood in the way of a child’s access to the nearby school.
While the Act has led to significant improvement in terms of enrolment at the primary level, universal enrolment is still a far cry. Governments at the Centre or in most of the states, have failed to fulfil the commitments promised in the Act. Chief among the impediments are the dearth of trained teachers, the general lack of elementary infrastructure across the country, unsuitable transition from the elementary to the secondary level, and poor monitoring of retention of children. To that can be added the fact that since education is on the Concurrent List of the Constitution, the Centre and the states have equal say on how the provisions of the Act are to be implemented.

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