On our first day in Delhi we travelled to an urban slum settlement called Trilockpuri. What hit us was the sheer bustle of the area; we saw many children working on the streets and building sites who really should have been in school.
We talked to lots of students to about their feelings and impressions of school life. The students at the Minority Resource Centre (MRC) wanted better teachers and more of them; they explained that sometimes there can be up to 80 students per teacher, even though the Right to Education (RTE) Act 2009 clearly states that there should be a teacher-pupil ratio of 1:35. And sometimes there can be one teacher covering two classes, which meant they could be in charge of up to 160 students.
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