LS passes bill to end no detention policy in schools

NEW DELHI: A bill to amend the Right to Education (RTE) Act to abolish the ‘no detention policy’ in schools was passed in the Lok Sabha today.

Replying to the debate in the Lok Sabha on The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (second amendment) Bill, 2017, Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said that it will be at the discretion of the states whether to continue with no detention or not.

The states, he said, will decide at what level and who will conduct the examination, the minister said.

“It is a broken education system. We have to rebuild our education system,” he added.

Under the current provisions of the RTE Act, no student can be detained till class 8 and all students are promoted to the next grade. (AGENCIES)

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