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Reforming RTE: Union Cabinet Approves Scrapping No Detention Policy
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The Union Cabinet has given the go-ahead for discarding the no detention policy in schools, by which schools can hold back students in any class till the completion of elementary education covering Classes I to VIII or even expel them.
An enabling provision will be made in the Right of Children for Free and Compulsory Education amendment Bill, which will now be placed in the Parliament for approval. However, the students will get a second chance to sit another exam and pass. Under the Right to Education Act, 2009, no child admitted in a school will be held back in any class or expelled till the completion of elementary education from Classes I to VIII.
The Cabinet, which deferred its decision to set up 20 world-class institutions in the country, approved the project as well.
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