Union minister of state for human resource development Daggubati Purandeswari said the Centre would soon bring an Act on the Right to Education.
Though primary education is a subject of state governments, the central government has asked all the states to prepare mandatory norms for the implementation of the bill, she said while addressing a programme here on Sunday.
The government would implement compulsory education free of cost from first class to eighth class, but the reservation percentage would be finalised by the states. "To discuss the issue we are holding a meeting with the education ministers of the states in the first week of September in Delhi," she said.
She ruled out a separate zone for Waltair railway division, which is now a part of the East Coast Railway. "The railway ministry has created a separate zone East Coast railway. So, another new zone will not be possible right now," she added.
Purandeswari said she has already requested railway minister Mamata Banerjee to merge the Waltair division with South Central Railway.
