'Gujarat needs to notify RTE rules quickly': Purandeswari

CM had written to the HRD ministry saying Guj would not be able to fund the RTE

PTI | May 18, 2011



Union minister of state for Human Resources Development (HRD) Duggubati Purandeswari today said that though Gujarat's progress with regard to the Right to Education (RTE) act was satisfactory, the state needs to pull up its socks and notify its rules quickly.

"The state government is doing a satisfactory work as far as the implementation of RTE in concerned", the minister said when asked to rank Gujarat in terms of RTE, that gives right of education to all the children of the country.

"But, Gujarat needs to pull up its socks and do a quick follow up to notify rules for RTE, which is yet to be done by the state," Purandeswari told reporters here.

"Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi had written a letter to the HRD ministry saying his state will not be able to fund the RTE as he demanded 90:10 ratio of funds from the centre and the state respectively," the minister said.

"That time, the centre had agreed to pay 55 per cent, while the rest had to be paid by the states. Considering similar requests made by other states, we have now increased the Centre's share to 65 per cent, while the states have to pay 35 per cent now," she added.

"But it is difficult for the centre to contribute 90 per cent and we have told that to the state governments," the minister added.

The minister was here to attend a function of North Gujarat University in Patan.


 

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