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Article 41 of the constitution lays down that the state shall, within the limits of its
economic capacity and development, make effective provision for securing the
right to education. Article 45 of the Constitution provides that the State shall
provide early childhood care and compulsory education for all children until they
complete the age of six years. The right to education up to the age of fourteen
years has been raised, by the decision of the Supreme Court, in UnniKrishnan v.
State of A.P.,
33 to the level of fundamental right. It was held by the court that
right to education flows directly from right to life under Article 21. The
constitution (86th) Amendment Act, 2002, inserts new Article 21 A in the
Constitution to make right to education a fundamental right for all children
between six and fourteen years of age. The obligation of state to provide
education to the children above the age of fourteen years would still depend
upon the economic capacity and development of the state.
Article 46 of the Constitution requires the State to promote with special
care the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of the
people, specially of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and to protect
them from social injustice and all forms of exploitation.
Moreover, Articles 29 and 30 which are incorporated in the part III of the
Constitution as fundamental rights also lay down following provisions in regard to
right of education.
(i) No citizen shall be denied admission into any educational institution
maintained by the State or receiving aid out of State funds on the grounds only of
religion, race, caste, language or any of them.34 The right to admission to an
educational institution is a right of a citizen as such35 which cannot be denied on
the grounds of religion, race, caste, language or any of them. An educational
institution receiving aid out of state funds cannot refuse admission to the
children belonging to a particular community. Since minorities have rights to
establish and administer educational institutions of their choice they can be
permitted to reserve 50% of the seats for the member of their own community in
the educational institutions so established by them36. But institutions cannot be
allowed to impart religious teaching within the premises of the institutions.37
(ii) All minorities, whether based on religion or language, shall have the
right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice.38