MP ready to scrap no detention policy from this year

  • | Monday | 23rd July, 2018

The policy was implemented as part of the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) under the RTE Act to ensure all-round development of students.The Union government amended the law as the policy was adversely affecting learning and teaching level of students. All we need to do is to get it implemented at the earliest,” Joshi said. Finally, the Union government became successful in getting green signal for amendments. Bhopal: After Lok Sabha passed a bill to amend the right of education (RTE) law — to do away with no detention policy — the state government has decided to implement the law from this year.Under the policy, students up to Class 8 are automatically promoted to the next class without being held back even if they do not get a passing grade. Madhya Pradesh was one of the 21 states, which had proposed to the Union government to scrap the policy last year.Minister of state for school education Deepak Joshi told TOI the state will implement the newly amended rules as soon as the Union government issues gazette notification.“It is a landmark decision for us because we have been pursuing it for long.

Bhopal: After Lok Sabha passed a bill to amend the right of education (RTE) law — to do away with no detention policy — the state government has decided to implement the law from this year.Under the policy, students up to Class 8 are automatically promoted to the next class without being held back even if they do not get a passing grade. The policy was implemented as part of the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) under the RTE Act to ensure all-round development of students.The Union government amended the law as the policy was adversely affecting learning and teaching level of students. Madhya Pradesh was one of the 21 states, which had proposed to the Union government to scrap the policy last year.Minister of state for school education Deepak Joshi told TOI the state will implement the newly amended rules as soon as the Union government issues gazette notification.“It is a landmark decision for us because we have been pursuing it for long. Finally, the Union government became successful in getting green signal for amendments. So the state should be the first state to implement it for the betterment of our education,” Joshi said.He said the state had taken final decision on scrapping of the policy last year and chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan himself had announced to scrap it as soon as the amendments are made.The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Second Amendment) Bill, 2017 removes a foundational provision of the RTE Act of 2009 that schools cannot make any child repeat a Class until Class 8.The amendment, to Section 16 of the act, does away with this restriction – enforced from 2010 and also known as the “no detention policy” – and allows states to decide whether to detain children in Class 5 or Class 8 or both.“We don’t need to decide on it any further as we were already clear on the topic. All we need to do is to get it implemented at the earliest,” Joshi said.

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