Free and Compulsory Education for Children between 6-14 years of age.....
It is after eight years of amendment of RTE act the government on April 1st 2010 implement the historic change in the law to provide free and compulsory education for all children between 6-14 years.
The 86th Constitutional amendment making education a fundamental right was passed by Parliament in 2002. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, a law to enable the implementation of the fundamental right, was passed by Parliament last year, while both the Constitutional amendment and the new law came into force on the same day.
Under this law, every child aged 6 to 14 shall have the right to free and compulsory education in a neighborhood school till elementary education. The schools are directed to provide 25% of the seats for this purpose. Although its implementation will directly benefit close to one crore children who do not go to schools at present.
Ambiguities in the Bill
- The Act is more input-focussed rather than outcomes-oriented.
- The Act is a violative of the fundamental rights of the unaided schools preserved under Article 19(1)(g) of the Constitution and minority schools preserved under Article 29 and 30 of the Constitution.
- The Act is not in a position to provide proper disciplinary channels for teachers, selection & admission process of students into a institution, reimbursement facility to private schools, how the defining and verifying of the weaker sections will be done, and how will the government monitor the whole baffling process.
Some of the unaided private schools and minority schools filled a bunch of petitions. A three judge bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia and justices K.S. Radhakrishnan and Swatanter Kumar referred the petitions to a five-judge Constitutional Bench of Supreme Court after counsel for the petitioners pointed out that several constitutional provisions required interpretation.
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