A STUDY EDUCATION RIGHT TOWARDS CHILDREN'S FREE AND COMPULSORY EDUCATION IN INDIA

EDUCATION

Education plays a cardinal role in transforming a society into civilized nation. It accelerates the progress of the country in every sphere of national activity. It operates as a ‘multiplier’ by enhancing the entitlement of all individual rights and freedom. It enables a person to control the benefits derived from other rights. It is ‘the key to unlock and protect other human rights.’ It embodies all civil political, social, economic and cultural rights. No segment of the citizens can be ignored or left behind because it would hamper the progress of the country as a whole. It is the duty of the State to do all it could, to educate every section of citizens who need a helping hand in marching ahead along with others. Although we have so many provisions and policies on the Right to Education, still we have failed to achieve this right as developmental right which was already foreseen by our constitution makers to be implemented in a predetermined span of time. Since independence, the target has not yet been achieved as reflected in the educational backwardness and poverty especially among certain groups of the society who have faced social discrimination.

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