Teachers’ orientation programme on RTI concludes

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, May 19

The two-day consultation-cum-orientation programme for government school teachers on Right To Education Act 2009 concluded here today. The programme was organised by ‘Save The Children’ foundation. The foundation recently has also launched its mobile video van facility for the district.

During the two-day programme, resource persons Chandan Barman, Amit Kumar Das and Amitabh Barik from the Non-Government Organisation and Gagandeep Kaur, a representative from the Volunteers for Social Justice, discussed the clauses and facilities offered under the Act for providing free and compulsory education to all children below the age of 14 years.

The representatives also discussed other clauses mentioned in the Act pertaining to the study curriculum structure and school infrastructure. Representatives also discussed about the facilities that every school has to offer to the students including other things.

They also elaborated that the vision of the foundation. They said the vision of the foundation was to provide better opportunities for the most marginalised children under its project ‘Strengthening Child Rights in the cotton farming districts of Punjab and Haryana.

The project had a goal to create an enabling environment which ensures the promotion of children’s rights leading to prevention of child labour in cotton growing district, especially Punjab and Haryana, they added.

They said the project was currently covering 833 habitations including 550 villages of Bathinda, Muktsar, Mansa and Fazilka and 283 villages of Hissar, Sirsa and Fatehabad.