While India’s new Right to Education Act seeks to bring free and compulsory education for all children, it seems to short-change them through an unrealistic vision of the private sector’s involvement. In August 2009, the Right to Education Act was passed in the Indian Parliament with no debate, by the fewer than 60 members who happened to be attending the session that day. Not that the Act was an open-and-shut...
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‘Amend Child Labour Act to execute RTE Act' by Aarti Dhar
Forty five signatures and one demand – end all forms of child labour to implement the Right to Education (RTE) Act in letter and spirit. This was the content of a petition addressed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The government should ensure that millions of children engaged in child labour were included in the implementation of the RTE Act. With this historic piece of legislation, the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation...
More »Civil society urges PM to ban child labour
Eminent citizens have petitioned PM Manmohan Singh asking him to ban all forms of child labour for those under 14 years of age. Spearheaded by international child rights organisation `Save the Children', 45 eminent members of society have demanded that the Child Labour Act be amended to remove contradictions between the Child Labour Prevention and Regulation Act (CLPRA) and the Right to Education (RTE) Act that provides education as a...
More »Test run for new BPL gauge
A pilot survey will be launched next month to assess the number of the poor in the country on a new set of parameters ahead of the scheduled BPL census in April 2011. The government has decided to launch the pilot project in 260 villages across the country to test the parameters suggested by a former Planning Commission member amid a debate on the best way of doing such counts. The project,...
More »Farm sector crucial for overall growth: Montek
The Planning Commission is hopeful of a good growth in the agriculture sector during the XII Plan (2012-17). “The 4-per cent agriculture growth is a good target for the XII Plan, which could not be achieved so far as envisaged in the XI Plan (2007-12),” Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia told journalists here on Thursday. “I think at the end of the XI Plan, our assessment is that agriculture...
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