HYDERABAD: Claiming that a total of 16 lakh students have been deprived of their fundamental right to life by not implementing
Right to Education (
RTE) in the state in the past eight years, the
Forum for Education Reform and Socialist Party (India)- Telangana on Saturday said that 100 percent literacy can only be achieved through common school system.
They also demanded that the state takes over private schools and completely ban coaching institutes in Telangana to improve quality of education.
"In India, 50 percent of the children fail to complete class 8 and 50 percent of these children are forced to work as child labourers. Unless we have free and compulsory quality education, the country will not progress and the only way to achieve this is by having a common school system," said
Sandeep Pandey, a social activist adding that he would not hesitate to sit on an indefinite strike to force AP and T government to implement RTE.
Advocate
Yogesh Tandava, who filed a
PIL in
High Court on non-implementation of RTE in T and AP, said that implementing RTE would make the state a better as it would promote communal harmony and social integration.
The members said that hardly 10 percent of the total schools in the state, who collects lakhs of rupees in the form of fee, are against RTE and added that it is time for the government to make private schools redundant.
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