ABSTRACT
It has been recognized for decades that the state of school education in India in general is far less than satisfactory. The impatience resulted in reformed implementation of policies pertaining to delivery of school education in some of the states including Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Mizoram, Tripura, Himachal Pradesh and some others. The enactment of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) is nothing but a cumulative result of the country-wide movements concerning the demand for universal opportunity for school education. It is true that the educational guarantee provided through the RTE is confined to the elementary level; but there are optimistic signals, including the constitution of the Rashtriya Madhyamaik Siksha Abhiyan, that secondary school education would also be brought under purview of univerzalisation. Rather, the social commitment involved in the process of organization reflects a deep undercurrent of social demand for resisting the current of immorality awfully manifested in the delivery of school education in recent times.
