Discernment of educational administrators of Uttar Dinajpur district of India on universalisation of secondary education

The 86th amendment to the Indian Constitution (Constitution (Eighty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2002) inserted Article 21-A in the Constitution which provided ‘free and compulsory’ education of all children in the age group of six to fourteen years as a Fundamental Right. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (RTE) is the consequential legislation envisaged under Article 21-A. Thus, RTE makes implementation of compulsory education legally binding on all states/union territories. The present has been conducted in Uttar Dinajpur district having population 30,00,849 and lowest literate (rate of literacy 59.07% as per Census of India, 2011) district of the state of West Bengal. To illustrate the discernment about Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan among the educational administrators in term of 19 variables, it is found that the variables like Educational qualification (X₂), professional experience (X₃), Designation (X₄), family size (X₅), school going children in family (X₆), children of class IX and X in family (X₇), necessity of private tuition (X₈), additional boost up by RMSA (X₁₀), drawback of present secondary education system (X₁₁), remedial measures of secondary education (X₁₂) were found to have substantial bearing on the level of discernment (Y) on Universalisation of Secondary Education (USE) of the educational administrators of the district Uttar Dinajpur.