“Right to Education Act is one of the most important fundamental rights that have been given to the all children between the age group of 6 to14 year by the government to provide access to elementary education to every child of India belonging to any caste, creed, region, religion or gender. But access to good quality of education affects the social, economic and political transformation and is a key instrument for building an equitable society. To achieve the goal of quality in education, now government of India has shifted to the input-based to outcome based. The basic goals for the shifting of policy implementation is to improve school effectiveness measured in terms of equal opportunity for schooling and equitable learning outcomes within the framework of inclusive and quality education according to the sustainable development goals (SDG) for education (MHRD,2017). School Merger policy is one of the examples of this policy shift in the state of Rajasthan. It is one of the first States that implemented the school merger policy in 2014 at large scale on the basis of enrolment and distance norms laid down by RTE Act 2009. Now, instead of rationalization of small school across extremely rural village, pandemic have drop down the situation and many children belong to far flung areas have denied to educational opportunity. Government have provided digital platform but it could not be possible because of the lacking of devises and technological advancement in rural area. Therefore, sustainability of children in schools could be leads to the low quality if education and their right to having educational opportunity in school education.
Mots clés : merger of school|access to schools|sustainability of children|post pandemic effect
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