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Right to Education
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to charge the world."
Nelson Mandela
Education plays a significant role in the development of an individual and making him a well-informed citizen. It is the education which makes an individual self-sufficient, helps to overpower the social evils and contribute towards the growth of the society and nation as a whole. Over the years, the demand for the education in our country has grown down by leaps and bounds. This is because people of all the sections of the society have understood the importance of education for the overall development of the child.
In India, education falls under the jurisdiction of the both Union and State Governments. Post-independence era has witnessed the commitment of the government to ensure universal elementary education to all. In 1950, India made a constitutional commitment to provide free and compulsory education to all children up to the age of 14, by adding this provision in Article 45 of the Directive Principles of State Policy.
However, it was the Constitution (Eighty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2002 which inserted Article 21-A in the Constitution of India to provide free and compulsory education to all children in the age group pf 6-14 years as a Fundamental Right in such a manner as the state may, by law, determine. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act 2009, which represents the consequential legislation envisaged under Article 21-A, means that every child has a right to full time elementary of satisfactory and equitable quality in a formal school which satisfies certain essential norms and standards. The title of the RTE Act incorporates the words 'free and compulsory', 'Free education' means that no child, other than a child who has been admitted by his or her parents to a school, which is not supported by the appropriate government shall be liable to pay any kind of free, charges or expenses which may prevent him or her from pursuing and completing elementary education. 'Compulsory Education' casts an obligation on the appropriate government and local authorities to provide and ensure admission, attendance and completion of elementary education by all children.
With this, India moved forward to a rights based framework that casts a legal obligation on the central and state governments to implement this fundamental child right as enshrined in the Article 21 A of the Constitution, in accordance with the provisions of the RTE Act.
The Right to Education (RTE) focuses on the child-centric education and promotes the three basic ideas namely Admission in Age Appropriate and Class (AAAC), Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) and No Detention Policy (NDP). CCE is backed by the fact that the children have different IQ levels, understanding and grasping power and thus, a single examination with a fixed set of questions becomes inappropriate to judge them.
The Right to Education Act entitles a poor child with the opportunity to study in the elite schools in order to complete the elementary education. however, there is quite a lot of possibility that the children from the weaker section of the society may develop inferiority complex while studying in these schools. Besides, the elite parents may have an objection to the fact that their children are studying with the children from a backward area. It will be difficult for the authorities to get the economically weaker section at parity with the regular students in terms of the education and exposure provided to them.
Moreover, once they are done with the elementary education, they need to slip back to schools of questionable standards which will be psychologically traumatic for them. The act lays down the guidelines in terms of the infrastructure and minimum personnel requirements which the school needs to adhere in order to function. There are many aided and private schools which have delivered excellent results in the past but due to the lack of funds in order to meet the stipulated guidelines will have to shut down. The RTE Act sanctions the government schools as the most secure ones in the terms of education and infrastructure.
The states need to ponder upon expanding the age limits and include more age groups under the aegis of RTE. The government needs to address the problem of shortage of well-qualified teachers. Besides, clauses such as minimum infrastructural requirements need to be relaxed and the focus should be more on the quality of the education. The education department should be given judicial power for the effective implementation of RTE.
The government can courage the participation of private sector to manage the problems of funds. But at the same time, it needs to assure that there are strict rules governing the participation of private sector in order to prevent the commercialisation of education. The government needs to widen the scope of this act in order to ensure its success
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to charge the world."
Nelson Mandela
Education plays a significant role in the development of an individual and making him a well-informed citizen. It is the education which makes an individual self-sufficient, helps to overpower the social evils and contribute towards the growth of the society and nation as a whole. Over the years, the demand for the education in our country has grown down by leaps and bounds. This is because people of all the sections of the society have understood the importance of education for the overall development of the child.
In India, education falls under the jurisdiction of the both Union and State Governments. Post-independence era has witnessed the commitment of the government to ensure universal elementary education to all. In 1950, India made a constitutional commitment to provide free and compulsory education to all children up to the age of 14, by adding this provision in Article 45 of the Directive Principles of State Policy.
However, it was the Constitution (Eighty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2002 which inserted Article 21-A in the Constitution of India to provide free and compulsory education to all children in the age group pf 6-14 years as a Fundamental Right in such a manner as the state may, by law, determine. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act 2009, which represents the consequential legislation envisaged under Article 21-A, means that every child has a right to full time elementary of satisfactory and equitable quality in a formal school which satisfies certain essential norms and standards. The title of the RTE Act incorporates the words 'free and compulsory', 'Free education' means that no child, other than a child who has been admitted by his or her parents to a school, which is not supported by the appropriate government shall be liable to pay any kind of free, charges or expenses which may prevent him or her from pursuing and completing elementary education. 'Compulsory Education' casts an obligation on the appropriate government and local authorities to provide and ensure admission, attendance and completion of elementary education by all children.
With this, India moved forward to a rights based framework that casts a legal obligation on the central and state governments to implement this fundamental child right as enshrined in the Article 21 A of the Constitution, in accordance with the provisions of the RTE Act.
The Right to Education (RTE) focuses on the child-centric education and promotes the three basic ideas namely Admission in Age Appropriate and Class (AAAC), Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) and No Detention Policy (NDP). CCE is backed by the fact that the children have different IQ levels, understanding and grasping power and thus, a single examination with a fixed set of questions becomes inappropriate to judge them.
The Right to Education Act entitles a poor child with the opportunity to study in the elite schools in order to complete the elementary education. however, there is quite a lot of possibility that the children from the weaker section of the society may develop inferiority complex while studying in these schools. Besides, the elite parents may have an objection to the fact that their children are studying with the children from a backward area. It will be difficult for the authorities to get the economically weaker section at parity with the regular students in terms of the education and exposure provided to them.
Moreover, once they are done with the elementary education, they need to slip back to schools of questionable standards which will be psychologically traumatic for them. The act lays down the guidelines in terms of the infrastructure and minimum personnel requirements which the school needs to adhere in order to function. There are many aided and private schools which have delivered excellent results in the past but due to the lack of funds in order to meet the stipulated guidelines will have to shut down. The RTE Act sanctions the government schools as the most secure ones in the terms of education and infrastructure.
The states need to ponder upon expanding the age limits and include more age groups under the aegis of RTE. The government needs to address the problem of shortage of well-qualified teachers. Besides, clauses such as minimum infrastructural requirements need to be relaxed and the focus should be more on the quality of the education. The education department should be given judicial power for the effective implementation of RTE.
The government can courage the participation of private sector to manage the problems of funds. But at the same time, it needs to assure that there are strict rules governing the participation of private sector in order to prevent the commercialisation of education. The government needs to widen the scope of this act in order to ensure its success
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The right to education has been recognized as a human right in a number of international conventions, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which recognizes a right to free, compulsory primary education for all, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all, on particular by the progressive introduction of free secondary education, as well as an obligation to develop equitable access to higher education, ideally by the progressive introduction of free higher education. Today, almost 75 million children across the world are prevented from going to school each day.[1] As of 2015, 164 states were parties to the Covenant.[2]
The right to education also includes a responsibility to provide basic education for individuals who have not completed primary education from the school and college levels. In addition to these access to education provisions, the right to education encompasses the obligations of the students to avoid discrimination at all levels of the educational system, to set minimum standards of education and to improve the quality of education.
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