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Making a mockery of the right to education -Swati Narayan

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The state government, heavily influenced by the private school lobby, had twisted the law’s rules so much that very few eligible children could jump through its hoops

Rohith Vemula’s case brought to the fore the depth of caste and class prejudices institutionally embedded in India’s education system. Babasaheb Ambedkar described these as, “an artificial chopping off of the population into fixed and definite units, each one prevented from fusing into another...”

But a clause in the 2009 Right to Education Act provided a historic opportunity to reverse the tide. Section 12(1)(c) insists that private schools across the country reserve 25% of seats, at the entry level, for free education of poor children. This ensures that children are schooled together at an impressionable age in the same classroom.

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