Under The Law, Children In 6-14 Age Group Have To Be In School

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New Delhi: India on Tuesday joined a select global club with the passage of the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, setting in motion an ambitious, if much-delayed, scheme of providing education to every child in the age bracket of 6-14 years.

Parliament Passes Right To Education Bill For Children Between 6 & 14

PARLIAMENT on Tuesday gave its stamp of approval to a historic legislation providing for free and compulsory education for all children between 6 and 14. The bill will become law as soon as President Pratibha Patil gives her assent.

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NEW DELHI: Parliament has adopted

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MADURAI: An allocation of Rs.53.25 lakh has been made under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) to help 4,570 poor children in Madurai district through various intervention programmes this academic year.

The Right to Education Bill, likely to be passed by Lok Sabha on Monday, is at the centre of a new row with disability activists alleging that it deliberately excludes disabled children from its ambit, in effect denying some 30 million children their right to education.

Years after he prepared the draft of Right to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal today introduced it in the Lok Sabha, setting the stage for education becoming the fundamental right of children aged 6 to 14 years.

Ranchi, July 30: Justice delayed is not always justice denied. Though it comes at a price he hadn