The ‘No Detention Policy’ will be amended under the Right
of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, for which the Central
Advisory Board of Education (CABE) agreed in October. This policy will permit
the state governments to take decisions on conducting annual examinations for
students of class 5 and 8. According to ‘No Detention Policy’, candidates up to
class 8 will get promoted to the higher class even if they do not pass the exam
with good grades. Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar, earlier in the month
had said that the government will reintroduce compulsory Class 10 board
examination for CBSE schools from the 2017-18 academic year.
The government declared on Thursday that it has become
compulsory for students studying in classes 5 and 8 to appear for annual
examinations. Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Upendra
Kushwaha told the Rajya Sabha that according to an annual survey by NCERT on
the learning achievement of children in Classes - III, V, VIII and X, there is
a need for notable improvement in their learning levels.
In a written reply, the minister said that the overview
additionally noticed that the learning levels of children depended upon factors
like financial, socio-geographic, the explanatory foundation of the
understudies, accessibility of essential frameworks in schools, accessibility
of prepared and skilled teachers in the schools, amongst others. Based on
section 29 of the RTE Act, 2009, the government provides free and compulsory
education for children at elementary level (CCE), in the age group of 6-14 and
has to assess their learning levels and provide additional instructions
accordingly. The minister said that the schools and separate governments are
free to conduct direct intermittent examinations for children of all levels.
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