Assam is a small state located in the north eastern corner of the country comprising of 2.58 percent of India’s total population yet Assam is placed down on the 19^th position with average literacy rate of 73.81% even with the implementation of the RTE Act, 2009. The issues of medium of instruction, ethnic riots, poor teacher’s pupil ratio, old teacher’s recruitment policies, multi-grade classes, multilingualism, teacher’s attendance, non availability of teachers, rate of retention, inactiveness on the part of people’s committee are some of the issues that are interfering with the implementation of this act. In light of the above, the researcher has tried to accumulate the different issues associated with the implementation of RTE Act 2009 in the state of Assam with an attempt to suggest certain suitable interventions to improve the prevailing situation.