The World Bank is certainly on to something here when focusing on the outcomes of education and not only the inputs.

"Around the world, aid from international donors buys textbooks, hires teachers, and opens schools - all worthy and necessary contributions in the fight to educate every child. But largely, the development equation remains fundamentally the same.

In an article from July 1, the AP government has given the unrecognized private schools in the state one year to continue and then face closure. 

"Keeping in view the future of students, the State government on Wednesday relaxed the AP Educational Institutions Rules permitting unrecognised private schools in the state to operate for the academic year of 2010-11."

  Section 12 of the RTE Act provides that all aided school have to provide free education to such proportion of their students, as the aid received by them by the government bears to their total recurring expenditure.

Months after the start of RTE in April this year, the monitoring unit at NCPCR has  come online:

http://rtemonitoringcell.info/

Similar to this website but with a direct purpose of receiving complaints, the NCPCR RTE web seems well suited to making RTE monitoring happen.

There is a lot of interest among the States to draft their own rules. Andhra Pradesh has recently come out with their draft version, see

http://www.righttoeducation.in/sites/default/files/legislation/draft-rules-andhra-pradesh.pdf

"An international law expert from India, Kishore Singh, has been appointed as the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education (RTE globally). Dr. Kishore Singh retired as Programme Specialist, Education Sector from UNESCO, Paris a couple of months ago. Internationally, he is known as one of the most knowledgeable persons on Right to Education who has worked extensively with various countries on diverse aspects of Right to Education.

The reservation of 25 % seats in private schools for students from disadvantaged groups and/or EWS is one of the most important mechanisms of the RTE. However, the Central (MHRD) and State Governments (Delhi, Karnataka and Maharastra at least) do not trust such a mechanism in the hands of local authorities. When a model for public governance was presented to these bureaus and individuals, all of them refused to give such an open mechanism in the hands of local officials. Bribery and rent-seeking would ensue they all agreed.

SSA - the grand flagship school reform preceeding RTE- has recently been under severe criticism abroad. British DFID wants to know where their money has gone, see http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/6048635.cms.   

A student studying low cost private schools in Delhi slums came up with these interersting findings: