Right to Education skirts real issues, harms private rights

The recent furore over the Supreme Court’s judgement on the Right to Edu-cation Act, 2009 — also known as the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 — has exposed another fault line in the Act that is riddled with loopholes. While the legislation’s intent is truly noble — to include the disadvantaged in the process of elementary education — it does so by riding rough-shod over private rights and ignoring the real issues in the sector.

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