New Delhi, August 05: India with over billion population has the Right of freedom of speech,has now Right of free education but this right cannot be executed without the Right tofree health and Right of social security beacuse each right is dependent on the rights of others.
Absence of Right to free health and social security With one milieu of right to free education will remain an act enacted but fail to remained practice with many applied and practical tests at the application levels.Without defening the nursery and primary schools and the neighbhourhood schools,state will have no unilateral standard and thus education imparted will have various order of the day as is being perceived today.Question was well taekn and raised by Bhagwat Z Aazad BJP MP and other MPs in course of discussion on the floor of house before the bill was put to vote.
With the bill enacted with constitution povision dating back 60 years ago has its own folly.Education do begins from the age of five but who is responsible to bring the child mind to develope till this hybrid age it is naturally a play schol and thus without the mapping of play school the right of free education remain a distant dream.
Even private sector having their own standards of Play scholl will indulge in the education gimmick for child potential. Resultant of free education, standards are not set for the student at cross road of 15 yrs.Do the act provides vocational or academic career therafter 15 yrs which is most important.
Certificate of 15 years of schooling authorise the student to go for certificate,diploma or degree course are variied unanswered questions.
But we all are happy that a step has been taken by the HRD Minister Kapil Sibal who has defintely clear,pure intentions to make the education move forward to bring the masses to give ample opportunity to education and schooling does not remain in the hands of fedual lords. His higher conscience too reflected his cause of free education straiht from his heart when he said India’s ratio of schooling kids going to graduate level is 100 : 12 which will not help India to compete in the global education and shall try our level best to enhance upto 100:35, great call,candid words.
Parliament has passed the historic Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill 2008 following its approval by the Lok Sabha today. It envisages providing free and compulsory education to children in the age bracket of 6-14.
The landmark Bill also allows 25 percent reservation to weaker sections in all schools at the entry level. Rajya Sabha has already passed the bill. Replying the discussion in the Lok Sabha, human resource development minister Kapil Sibal said that the onus is now on the government to ensure that all children get free and quality education.
He asserted that it is for the first time in the history of the country that differentlyabled children are also being integrated in to a normal school. Calling it a national enterprise, Mr.Sibal said that the state must come forward to cooperate in this endeavour. Our parliamentary correspondent gives an overview.
AIR correspondent Manikant Thakur reports from Parliament that getting educated comes under Human Rights and finally the dream of free and compulsory education for all children in India seems to be shaping up. Seeking to carry out radical changes in the primary education pattern, the legislation states that no child shall be required to pass any Board examination till completion of elementary education.
Schools taking capitation fees will be penalised and the child or parents can not be subjected to any screening procedure before admission. The bill also seeks to ban private tuition by teachers and ensure that no child is subjected to physical punishment or mental harassment. It shall be the duty of every parent or the guardian to admit the child to a neighbourhood school .No child will be denied admission for lack of age proof. Having said all this, some homework is yet to be done .As per an estimation, the financial requirement to implement the act will be about 2.28 lakh crore rupees for a period of 7 years.
Apart from the existing schemes, the government will have to spend an additional 12,000 crore rupees per annum for its implementation. The share of financial burden is yet to be worked out between the state and the centre. Seeking a uniform and quality education is not an easy task.One has to wait and watch for the good things to happen.
The bill was originally initiated in the Rajya Sabha in December 2008 by the former human resource development minister Mr.Arjun Singh. Mr.Kirti Azad of the BJP initiated the discussion in the Lok Sabha.
–Agencies–