60% of Indian children travel over 1 km to school despite RTE norms

India's first National Household Travel Survey by the NSO found that 60.6% of students aged 6 to 14 travel more than a kilometre to school. RTE rules require schools within 1 km for Classes 1-5 and 3 km for Classes 6-8. The survey covered over 14,000 villages and 10,000 urban blocks, and more than 20 lakh people.