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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Now, SC takes up RTE cause

Now, SC takes up RTE cause

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published Published on Feb 10, 2011   modified Modified on Feb 10, 2011
After Right to Food, the Supreme Court has taken up the issue of Right to Education to ensure that every government-run school in India has requisite  number of teachers, potable water, toilets, safe building and other such facilities for students.

A bench headed by justice Dalveer Bhandari on Tuesday ordered all the district collectors and magistrates to submit  a report in this regard within four weeks to the chief secretary/ administrator of their respective state/union territory, who in turn have been  directed to file a comprehensive affidavit before it within six weeks.

Justice  Bhandari has issued  a series of direction for implementation of right to food and  pulled up government agencies  for rotting of huge quantity of  foodgrains even as the poor starved.

But the government had opposed it saying foodgrains bought for a price could not be distributed for free as  the poor and the needy were already getting it at subsidised rates.

The court wanted to have  comprehensive information  regarding basic facilities such  as  potable/drinking water, separate toilets for boys and girls,  electricity, boundary walls, mid-day meal facility and availability of requisite number of teachers in primary schools.

"Free and compulsory education has now become a fundamental right under  Article 21-A of the Constitution of India and in order to implement this fundamental right of the children, this exercise is absolutely  imperative," the bench, which also included justice AK Ganguly, said posting the matter for further hearing on March 29, 2011.

The Right to Education Act guarantees free and compulsory  education  to very child between the age group of six and 14.

The court was hearing a PIL  filed in 2004 by Environment and Consumer Protection  Foundation highlighting the plight of government-run schools in Delhi and lack  of  basic  facilities such as drinking water, toilets and dilapidated condition of some school buildings.

Agreeing with petitioner’s counsel Ravindra Bana that "Delhi alone is not India", the apex court had later widened the ambit of the petition and issued notices  to  all states and union territories seeking details of facilities available in government-run schools.

The Hindustan Times, 10 February, 2011, http://www.hindustantimes.com/Now-SC-takes-up-RTE-cause/Article1-660571.aspx


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