an essay on right to education bill will accelerate india's progress
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Education is a elemental human right and essential for all other human rights. It is a powerful tool by which socially and economically marginalized children and adults can lift themselves out of poverty. It also consists of the right to freedom of education. Freedom of education is the right given to human beings to have access to the education of their preference without any constrictions. Right to education is a human right recognized by the United Nations. It includes the entire compulsion to eliminate inequity at all levels of the educational system.
The rights to education are separated into three levels:
• Primary (Fundamental or Elemental) Education- This type of education must be free and compulsory for any child apart from of …show more content…
Higher education should be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. Professional and technical education should be made generally available.
Education should promote friendship, understanding and tolerance among all nations, religious or racial groups, and the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. It should be intended for the improvement of the human personality. It should be directed to the strengthening of respect for human rights and freedoms.
All the parents have a right to decide the type of education that shall be given to their children.
The right to education is also reaffirmed by the 1st Protocol of ECHR, 1981 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and also the 1960 UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Convention against Discrimination in Education.
According to the article 1(2) written in the 1960 UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education, education refers to the transmission to a following generation of those skills required to carry out the tasks of daily living, and further passing on the cultural, spiritual, social and philosophical ethics
Rights to Edcuation The importance of learning is to enable the individual to put his potentials to optimal use. Education makes man a right thinker and a correct decision-maker. It achieves this by bringing him knowledge from the external world, teaching him to reason and acquainting him with past history, so that he can be a better judge of the present. With education, he finds himself in a room with all its windows open to the outside world. A well educated man is a more dependable worker, a better citizen, a centre of wholesome influence, pride to his community and honour to his country. A nation is great only in proportion of its advancement in education.
Under the RTE Act, it is envisaged that, the teaching-learning process would be stress-free and a massive programme for curricular reform would be initiated to provide for a child friendly learning system, that is at once relevant and empowering. Similarly, the Teacher accountability systems and processes would ensure that the children are learning and that their right to learn in a child friendly environment is safeguarded.
The immense relevance of inclusive education, particularly of disadvantaged groups, demands vibrant partnerships with the departments and organizations concerned with children of the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and educationally backward minorities. Government will have to set up systems for equal opportunity for children with special needs. The Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Departments would need to accelerate poverty reduction programmes so that children are freed from domestic chores and wage earning responsibilities. State Governments would simultaneously ensure that the Panchayati Raj institutions get appropriately involved so that 'local authorities' can discharge their functions under the RTE Act. There is a need for close cooperation amongst departments concerned to ensure that so far the deprived children get their rights to education.
The Sports Departments would need to build in physical education for the overall physical, social, emotional and mental development of the child. Above all, people's groups, civil society organizations and voluntary agencies will have to play a crucial role in implementing the RTE. A vibrant civil society movement would also ensure that the rights of the child are not violated; it can amplify the voice of the disadvantaged and weaker sections of society. It can also improve programmer outcomes by contributing local knowledge and technical expertise and bringing innovative ideas and solutions to the challenges ahead.
With regard to Constitutional Provisions, it has given considerable importance to the education. The Constitutional Amendment of 1976 included education in the Concurrent List, which means that both the Centre and the State have jurisdiction over enacting legislations on the subject and is a far-reaching step.
With huge investments in the infrastructure of schools, to cater to the educational needs of children with varying intelligence levels, alternative forms of education is also fairly widely available. One must get acquainted with those alternatives for self progress and betterment.
Parents have expectations from the education system that it would equip their children for gainful employment and economic well being. The enforcement of the Fundamental Right to Education would provide us a unique opportunity to mount a mission encompassing all the discourses to fulfill our goal of universal elementary education. The right to education goes beyond free and compulsory education to include quality education for all.
With the introduction of RTE Act, in the years to come, there would be a notable achievement in the 'literacy rate' in our country. Is it not the 'dream' and 'prime motto' of our Leaders?
Thus, it can be concluded that, Education is a fundamental human right, without which capabilities for a decent life and effective participation in society are less likely to be developed. Since the RTE Act has provided us the tools to provide quality education to all our children, it is now imperative that we, the people of India, join hands to ensure the implementation of this law in its true spirit. The Government is committed to this task though real change will happen only through collective action and we must come forward willingly for the same.