Homeschooling and alternative education in India

The legality of homeschooling in India and a plethora of Alternative Education schools spread over different states has been debated by educators, lawmakers, and parents since the passing of The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act also known as RTE which makes formal education a fundamental right of every child between the ages of 6 to 14 and specifies minimum norms for schools. However, there have been petitions by parents and alternate schools for granting relief

In India, from the early 20th century, some educational theorists discussed and implemented radically different forms of education. Rabindranath Tagore's Visva-Bharati University, Sri Aurobindo's Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education and Mahatma Gandhi's ideal of "basic education" are prime examples.

In recent years, many new alternative schools have been formed.

As prevalent worldwide, homeschoolers in India use a wide variety of methods and materials including their own methods. Though there is no actual data available, most prevalent methods in India are Montessori method, Unschooling, Radical Unschooling, Waldorf education and School-at-home. Some of these approaches like Montessori and Waldorf, are also available in school settings. Many homeschoolers follow formal education methods at home through CBSE, NIOS(formerly NOS) and IGCSE

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