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September 2009

Right to education becomes law, puts India in select league

By Raman Jokhakar, Tarunkumar Singhal, Chartered Accountants
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  1. Right to education becomes law, puts India in
    select league


India on Tuesday joined a select global club with the passage of the Right to
Free and Compulsory Education Bill, setting in motion an ambitious, if
much-delayed, scheme of providing education to every child between 6 and 14
years.


The law is unique as, while providing compulsory education, it would not fail
any student till Class VIII. It also enjoins all Government and private
schools to provide 25% quota to ‘disadvantaged’ kids. The law provides for
building neighbourhood schools in three years whose definition and location
will be decided by states.


The legislation, which has already been passed by the Rajya Sabha, will soon
be enacted after getting the assent from President Pratibha Patil. The RTE
would empower the seven-year-old 86th Constitutional amendment that made free
and compulsory education a fundamental right. The Bill sets down guidelines
for States and the Centre to execute and enforce this right. Earlier,
education was part of the directive principles.

(Source :
The Times of India, 5-8-2009)

 

 

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