Indian Parliament has unanimously passed the Right to Education bill on Tuesday. It will pave way for free and compulsory education for children in the age group of 6 to 14 years in India.
Also look up for the history (till July 19 2006): <http://www.ilpnet.org/rte/> and another news item: <http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/ india/Education-is-now-a-right/articleshow/4858277.cms>. http://abclive.in/abclive_national/india_right_to_education_bill.html Indian Parliament Passes Right to Education Bill05 August, 2009 07:05:00Jatinder - Kaur <http://abclive.in/abclive_national/author/jatinder/> *New Delhi (ABC Live): Indian Parliament has unanimously passed the Right to Education bill on Tuesday.* New Delhi (ABC Live): Indian Parliament has unanimously passed the Right to Education bill on Tuesday. It will pave way for free and compulsory education for children in the age group of 6 to 14 years in India. Debate on the Bill was taken up in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, which passed the bill. Speaking about the Bill, Union Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal said that it is responsibility of the state governments to implement the provisions of the Bill. He said as far as disabled clause is concerned, proper care has been taken in the Bill in this regard. He also said that availability of money for implementing the bill would not be a problem and the Centre and state governments would settle the matter. The HRD Minister also said that availability of money for implementing the bill would not be a problem and the Centre and state governments would settle the matter. Clarifying the doubts raised by members about absence of any mechanism to provide pre-school education to children before attaining the age of six years, Sibal said, "This Bill is drafted in accordance with the the constitutional amendment that provides for free and compulsory education for children between the age of 6 and 14 years." <http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=128224090688&h=HX1vb&u=OckiF&ref=mf> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
