Most Govt Schools in India Lack Basic Infrastructure: Survey

Out of the schools surveyed, 63 percent schools are without playgrounds and 60 percent schools do not have the boundary walls.

Most of the schools are found violating the rules and regulation of RTE by not offering age suitable admission to children in more than 80 percent of schools and by asking for age proof in over 60 percent schools.

Rekha, a 10-year-old student of government school in Madhya Pradesh, said, "Every time we need to use the washroom, we have to go home," as reported by NDTV news.

She also stated that her school has no playground nor drinking water or a boundary wall.

Since RTE became a law in 2009, the basic rules for RTE's implementation had been put in place by the state governments. Still some states like Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat took over two years to implement the basic structure of RTE.

Further the survey points out that in the year 2010, the Union government gave a deadline of three years to provide all the basic requirements but unfortunately this too failed to turn into action.

So all these hindrances in implementing RTE- the basic right given to all Indian children to get education, would only remain another piled up law and fail to fulfill the task of universal education.