With an aim to include students in the decision-making process, the school Education department has sent an internal Communication to all district chief education officers directing them to set up a students council in all the schools.
The project will take shape with the help of teachers and the members of a few NGOs.
Every school must have a school management committee (SMC) mandated under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009, which should have parents and representatives of the local body as members to enable interaction with teachers and school education department officials to fulfill the requirement of the school and children. The SMC is a 20-member committee with a convener and a joint convener.