Question

Right to Education Act, 2009
Aims at providing free and
compulsory education to all
children of India who are in the
age
group of 6-14 years.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Indian Parliament has amended the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 on January 10, 2019. The Bill seeks to amend the Right to Education (RTE) Act to abolish the “no-detention” policy in schools, under this provision of the Act (RTE - 2009), no student can be detained up to class VIII.

The Act may now be called the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Act, 2019. However the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).