The Right to Education Act was passed in 2009 by the Government of India. Under this act the Government ensures free and compulsory education for children between the age of 6-14 years under Article 21 A of the Indian Constitution. 

The four implications of this RTE Act are as follows: 

• No child has to pay a fee or expenses which may prevent her/him from pursuing and completing elementary education. 

• Children need to be admitted to their age- appropriate classes. 

• No formal of corporal punishment to be enacted out on the children. Teachers need to ensure that the children are provided with an anxiety free environment which will enhance their overall growth and development. 

• No child will be expelled or held back until the completion of elementary education. 

• Persons with learning disabilities will be eligible to be placed under the RTE until the age of 18 years. 

• All schools should have the required infrastructures like classrooms, toilets, blackboard, textbooks and good teachers. 

• Mid-day meals were introduced in an attempt to make more and more children come to the school to get food and education. India became one of the 135 countries to make education a fundamental right for each child when the RTE Act came into force on 1st April, 2010.