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The right to education is a universal entitlement to education. This is recognized in the international convenient on economics, social and cultural rights as human right that includes the right to free and compulsory education for all, still there is lacuna in elementary education during that juncture the right to education act 2009 came into force in the year 2010 for improving elementary education. In this present study, the investigator intended to examine and explore the effect of RTE Act, 2009 in rural area. The investigator adopted exploratory survey research method for the present study and select the headmaster and SMC members from our elementary school as sample population. Interview cum observation scheduled adopted for data collection regarding effect of RTE Act, 2009 in rural elementary school. The researcher used content analyses and percentage for data interpretation. The findings of the study are that RTE Act was not effective or properly implement in rural areas. However, the present study found there is gap in its implementation of RTE Act in rural areas in terms of physical infrastructure of the school, student teacher ratio and establishment of neighbourhood school. It can be concluded that the RTE Act is neither effective nor properly implemented in rural areas. Further the study found there were many problems in elementary education after implementation of RTE Act in rural area due to lack of physical infrastructure, student teacher ratio and neighbourhood school which is a big challenge for both the state govt. and stakeholder. Therefore, require physical resource, human resource and financial resource should be allocated to overcome the existing problems in elementary education in rural area.