Rethinking Educational Reform Beyond Policy Failure: No Detention Policy And Adaptive Governance Failure In India
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Himanshi Sharma, Renaissance Law College, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya
ABSTRACT
No Detention Policy (NDP) was introduced under the Right to Education Act (2009), which prohibits schools to detain or fail students of primary education. This was not introduced in isolation, but after a long history of study and observation. However, the policy was scrapped down in 2019, and later a revised “Detention Policy” was introduced, after the negative outcomes of NDP in some states. Despite this, states like Kerala continued to support and follow the policy, which now raises critical concerns regarding policy governance issues. The policy was introduced after years of thorough examination, requiring it to be revisited and reformed, rather than to be retreated and wiped out as a result of uneven outcomes and support. This paper argues that such divergence reflects failure of adaptive policy governance in reviewing and taking necessary measures for its better implementation. Thus, exploring the pattern leading to the failure of a robust policy design, and also suggests possible corrective measures to be adopted for smoother application.
Keywords: No Detention Policy, Right to Education, Adaptive Policy Governance, Policy failures, Education system.
