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‘Right to free education law will be enforced in April-May’

The Centre on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act to provide free and compulsory education to children in the age group of 6 to 14 will be enforced in April/May after the Rules were put in place.

Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam gave this assurance before a Bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice B.S. Chauhan hearing a petition filed by advocate M.C. Mehta dealing with child labour.

When the Solicitor General said that the law would be enforced in April/May, the CJI said: “If it is implemented with full vigour, children engaged in labour must be in school and not in work place.”

The Solicitor General said: “We want to put the Rules in place before enforcing the law.” He made it clear that once this law was implemented, the child labourers would be put into school.

He said that after the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan was launched, the dropout of girls from the schools which was 13.57 per cent had come down significantly to 11.36 per cent in relation to girls engaged in agriculture and other activities.

The CJI said: “There is some improvement but not to the full extent in some of the States. Child labour can be completely wiped out if the law is fully implemented.”

The CJI asked the Solicitor General to ensure that no child engaged in labour was in the work place but put in the schools. If this was done child labour would be minimised, he said.