• Bhoomi Shroff

India adopted the new economic policy of liberalisation in the year 1991. This brought about some major challenges to the nation which had more than half of the population living below the literacy rate. Globalization demanded skilled manpower and quality human capital to face the challenges and competition in the modern world. Skilled man power is possible through good quality education. It became pertinent for India to focus and invest in education to cater to the rising demands of globalization, and to mitigate the socio-economic inequalities arising out it. Since independence the focus of the policy makers and leaders had been on higher education. World class institutes like IITs and IIMs were set up to promote higher education in the country. However, the state of primary education was dismal, in spite of it being the very base of higher education. The required emphasis was not put up on setting up schools with good infrastructure and providing good quality education to the students, especially in the government schools. With the majority of the population living in the rural areas and living below the poverty line, the only access they had to education was these government primary schools. Although the constitution of India had a clause that the State shall endeavour to provide, within a period of ten years from the commencement of the Constitution, for free and compulsory education for all children until they complete the age of fourteen years, it was never implemented until recently with the passage of the Right to Education Act 2009 (RTE). This paper attempts to study the importance of RTE in the face of various challenges thrown up by globalization. The RTE is going to play a very significant role in enhancing the human capital of the country and leading to nations overall development.

Globalization, Education, Right to Education, India

"Placing the Right to Education Act (2009) in the era of Globalization", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no.524-529, September-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809871.pdf

"Placing the Right to Education Act (2009) in the era of Globalization", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no. pp524-529, September-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809871.pdf