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Court notice to Delhi over right to education
Wednesday October 19, 2011 09:39:17 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the Delhi
government on an NGO's plea seeking framing of rules to provide
free and compulsory education to children in the capital under the
right to education law.
Directing Delhi government's education secretary to appear before
it, a division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and
Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw asked him clarify his stand on the
issue.
Pulling up the government over its failure to frame rules since
2009, the bench sought a reply by Nov 9, the next date of hearing.
The court was hearing the petition of NGO Social Jurist filed
through its counsel Ashok Agarwal.
The petition said that the government did not seem to be serious
about making and notifying rules as required under Section 38 of
the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009.
This had resulted in continuous violation of the right to
education of lakhs of children in the capital, it said.
Pleading that the government should be directed to issue the
notification within a decided time period, petitioner's counsel
Agarwal said: "The government has failed to frame rules under the
RTE law, which came into force in 2009, and as a result children
are deprived of the benefits under the act."
The RTE Act mandates that no child would be liable to pay any fee
or expense which may prevent him from completing the elementary
education, the petition said.
"Providing free and compulsory education to children is the
statutory obligation on the part of the government...," Agarwal
said.
The petitioner said that the government had framed the draft rules
as early as June 24, 2010, but till now these had not been
notified.
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