Teachers’ awareness about RTE act – 2009 among upper primary school teacher

Now education is a fundamental rights in our Indian constitution after 86^th amendment of the constitution in 2002. After this inclusion education is treated as fundamental right of every children to get free and compulsory education between the age group of 6–14 years. This right is known as RTE Act-2009. It is the teacher who has the prime responsibility to understand and implement this Act. So there is a need of knowledge and awareness for the teacher about RTE Act-2009. In this paper the researcher had tried to findout the awareness level of teachers about the RTE Act-09 from different angles. For this purpose the researcher had chosen a total number of sample 349 from upper primary section teachers of Govt. Aided school of Malda district. The study reveals that there is a significant difference about the RTE awareness in respect of male and female teachers, teacher of rural area and urban area and teacher of science and teacher of arts.