Date of Publication :19th June 2019

Abstract: The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, enacted through the 86th amendment, declared primary education as a constitutional and fundamental right of all children in India between the ages of 6-14. The Act had stated that the remodeling of the system, should be implemented in its entirety at the earliest, but the ground reality belies the statutory vision. The Government and the Teaching community have to come to terms with a burgeoning child population looking for affordable quality education and it would be unwise to sacrifice quality and seek comfort in numbers which declares with aplomb that some states have actually wiped out illiteracy and achieved 100% literacy. The paper attempts to focus on the skewed priorities and perception of the policy makers that impact the next generation citizens. It also attempts to analyze the various issues and challenges that confront the student and the teaching community and put forth solutions to mitigate the crisis, through taking colossal humanistic and digital strides in the right direction to make children have access to quality education that would be welded to enhanced and effective learning outcomes

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