RIGHT TO EDUCATION
 

Shri S.P. Patil, Headmaster, Z.P. Primary School, Pune (30.9.90)

- Right to education should be made a fundamental right by amending the Constitution.

Shri T.B. Gobinda Rao, General Secretary, Bharatiya Shikshana Mandala, Karnataka, 21, 6th Cross Road, Chamarajpet, Bangalore (9.10.1990)

- The constitutional provision relating to the special protection for minority institutions (Art 30) must be scrapped.

Prof. Jacob Aikara, Professor and Head, Unit for Research in the sociology of Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Deonar, Post Box No. 8313, Bombay 400088. (6th October, 1990)

- There is a suggestion to examine the feasibility of amending the Constitution to make the right to education a fundamental right. It is presumed that it refers to only elementary education and not to higher education. Considering the experience we have had so far with the Constitutional directive on the universalisation of elementary education, one finds little purpose in having right to education as a fundamental right enshrined in the Constitution.

Dr. R. Bandyopadhyay, Director, Centre for Applied Systems Analysis in Development, D-5/8, Salunke Vihar, Pune-411022 (19.10.90)

- What is meant by making "Right to Education" a fundamental right must be explained. Does it mean that everyone has right to every type of education or does it mean everyone has right to education upto secondary level and at subsequent levels such rights are

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available only according to capability of the student comensurate with needs of the society? Some clarification is required; otherwise 'right to education' may become a slogan devoid of content.

Shri R.S. Bharadwaj, General Secretary, Bharatiya Shikshan Mandal, K- 30, Green Park Main, New Delhi-110016 (9.10.90)

- The Committee should also consider the case of schools run by minority communities and should recommend for constitutional amendments so as to bring these institutions in the mainstreams of the country.

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