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RTI in school curriculum likely

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SCERT director says 14 focus groups formed to suggest revisions

KOCHI: Schoolchildren will be taught about people's right to access Government information under the Right to Information Act.

The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) is planning to include RTI Act 2005 in the school curriculum.

The school curriculum syllabus, from Class I to XII, will be revised next year. This is being carried out under the National Curriculum Framework 2005 of the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT).

The SCERT has informed a Kochi human rights lawyer that the RTI Act "will be considered in the present curriculum revision."

The lawyer had sought to know what steps the Government had taken to create awareness about the RTI Act. The Act, under Section 26, asks appropriate Government agencies to `develop and organise educational programmes to advance the understanding of the public, in particular of disadvantaged communities, how to exercise the rights contemplated under the Act.'

The SCERT director told The Hindu that the process of curriculum revision was now on. Fourteen focus groups had been formed to suggest revisions in 14 select areas.

The RTI and the rights of persons with disabilities would be among the important rights to be included in the curriculum, he said.

However, under which subject and in what class would be decided later.

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