The implementation of Right to Education, RTE Act, completed two years on Sunday. Under the RTE Act, all the children in the age group of 6 to 14 years are entitled to get free and compulsory education.

The provisions of the Act also ensure free text books, school uniforms and school bags to all children.

Talking to reporters in New Delhi, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said that RTE has led to a significant improvement in decreasing the annual average dropout rate in the country which has comedown to 6.9 per cent in 2010-11 from the earlier 9.1 per cent in 2009-10.

He said that there has been an over 5 per cent decline in the drop out rate in Bihar, Jharkhand, Nagaland and Uttar Pradesh. However, Haryana and Mizoram have shown an increase in the drop out rate.