Right to Education Campaign fastens today, 11 July 2012

The central government came up with a revolutionary campaign called the Shiksha ka haq abhiyan campaign. The campaign is in place to raise awareness about the Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009.The campaign kick started on 11 July 2012 at a place called, Sattari, which is situated in the north east side of Goa.The campaign will view training that would be imparted to village panchayat members and school heads.

The training will be imparted to all blocks of the Goa Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). It is estimated to end at Canacona, a municipal council in South Goa district on 20 July 2012. Interesting part is that the program will also train the village and the school heads in order to identify the neighborhood schools as per the provisions in the RTE act.

The campaign is to be flagged off by Chief Minister, Manohar Parrikar, after it gets launched, the media campaign will be launched that will in turn help raise awareness on the RTE act.

The campaign's motive is to create holistic awareness about the provisions of RTE, which talks about providing basic education to children up to the age of 14 years. The campaign is all set to cover nine hundred and five schools in North Goa and five hundred and ninety five schools in South Goa starting July 2012.