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India Can't Keep Citing the Pandemic to Deprive Children of Education -Ritambhara Singh and Mihir Rajamane

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It has already been a year and a half since the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted education. It is high time that governments come up with innovative solutions to deal with the emerging situation.

July 31, 2021 marked the first anniversary of the National Education Policy 2020. This year also marks the 11th anniversary of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education, 2009 (‘RTE Act’) coming into force. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has put the project of universal education in the state of Karnataka on the back burner, which we must quickly course correct.

The right to education was the first fundamental right inserted separately in the constitution of India after its adoption in 1950. Article 21A was added in 2002, through the 86th Constitutional Amendment. This RTE Act creates an obligation on the state to provide free and compulsory education to children in the age group of 6-14 in a neighbourhood school.

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