Rangaraju provides the national count of 2,692 schools shut and 17,871 at risk under RTE norms. Quoted directly on the law’s failure to make teaching mandatory or link teacher pay to performance.
Rangaraju explains how RTE’s infrastructure mandates are destroying the low-cost private schools that serve Bihar’s poorest children, and why political compulsions rather than evidence are driving the closures.
Op-ed by Baladevan Rangaraju documenting India Institute’s Data Blind campaign tracking school closures under RTE. Argues the government has no reliable data on how many schools have been shut.
