EDUCATION AND RIGHT TO EDUCATION
Right to education is one of the major issues that has been taken up by the govt. in the recent years. "The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act' or ' Right to Education Act also known as RTE', stress the importance of free and compulsory education for children between 6 and 14 in India under Article 21A of the Indian Constitution. India became one of 135 countries to make education a fundamental right of every child when the act came into force on 1 April 2010. The title of the RTE Act incorporates the words ‘free and compulsory’. ‘Free education’ means that no child, other than a child who has been admitted by his or her parents to a school which is not supported by the appropriate Government, shall be liable to pay any kind of fee or charges or expenses which may prevent him or her from pursuing and completing elementary education". But this right to education needs to have more specification & categori...