Parliament pass Right of Education bill
Sibal said on floor of the hosue,about not having any penal law or
clause under the Bill for parents not sending their children to schools
for elementary education,
Sibal said, "There is no rationale to bring such law or include such
clause in the Bill"." We don't have right to send such parents to jail
and make their children orphan."
India with over billion population has the Right of freedom of speech,has now Right of free education but this right cannot be executed without the Right to free health and Right to social security beacuse each right is dependent on the rights of others.Absence of Right to free health and social security With one milieu of right to free education will remain an act enacted but fail to remained in practice with many applied and practical tests at the application levels.
Without defining the nursery and primary schools and the neighbhourhood schools,state will have no unilateral standard and thus education imparted will have various order of the day as is being perceived today.Question was well taken and raised by Bhagwat Z Aazad BJP MP,former cricketer and other MPs in course of discussion on the floor of house before the bill was put to vote.
With the bill enacted with constitution povision dating back 60 years ago has its own folly.Education do begins from the age of five but who is responsible to bring the child mind to develope till this hybrid age it is naturally a play schol and thus without the mapping of play school the right of free education remain a distant dream.
Even private sector having their own standards of Play scholl will indulge in the education gimmick for child potential.
Resultant of free education,standards are not set for the student at cross road of 15 yrs.Do the act provides vocational or academic career therafter 15 yrs which is most important.
Certificate of 15 years of schooling authorise the student to go for certificate,diploma or degree course are variied unanswered questions.But we all are happy that a step has been taken by the HRD Minister Kapil Sibal who has defintely clear,pure intentions to make the education move forward to bring the masses to give ample opportunity to education and schooling does not remain in the hands of fedual lords.
His higher conscience too reflected his cause of free education straiht from his heart when he said India’s ratio of schooling kids going to graduate level is 100 : 12 which will not help India to compete in the global education and shall try our level best to enhance upto 100:35, great call,candid words.
Parliament has passed the historic Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill 2008 following its approval by the Lok Sabha today. It envisages providing free and compulsory education to children in the age bracket of 6-14.
The landmark Bill also allows 25 percent reservation to weaker sections in all schools at the entry level. Rajya Sabha has already passed the bill. Replying the discussion in the Lok Sabha, human resource development minister Kapil Sibal said that the onus is now on the government to ensure that all children get free and quality education.
He asserted that it is for the first time in the history of the country that differentlyabled children are also being integrated in to a normal school. Calling it a national enterprise, Mr.Sibal said that the state must come forward to cooperate in this endeavour. Our parliamentary correspondent gives an overview.
AIR correspondent Manikant Thakur reports from Parliament that getting educated comes under Human Rights and finally the dream of free and compulsory education for all children in India seems to be shaping up. Seeking to carry out radical changes in the primary education pattern, the legislation states that no child shall be required to pass any Board examination till completion of elementary education. Schools taking capitation fees will be penalised and the child or parents can not be subjected to any screening procedure before admission. The bill also seeks to ban private tuition by teachers and ensure that no child is subjected to physical punishment or mental harassment. It shall be the duty of every parent or the guardian to admit the child to a neighbourhood school .No child will be denied admission for lack of age proof. Having said all this, some homework is yet to be done .As per an estimation, the financial requirement to implement the act will be about 2.28 lakh crore rupees for a period of 7 years. Apart from the existing schemes, the government will have to spend an additional 12,000 crore rupees per annum for its implementation. The share of financial burden is yet to be worked out between the state and the centre. Seeking a uniform and quality education is not an easy task.One has to wait and watch for the good things to happen.
The bill was originally initiated in the Rajya Sabha in December 2008 by the former human resource development minister Mr.Arjun Singh. Mr.Kirti Azad of the BJP initiated the discussion in the Lok Sabha.
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."
"However the states are free to provide pre-school education to children since these days education starts at the age of three or four years in the country", he said.
In a reply to the question asked by Jayaprada (SP) about inclusion of children with disability under the Bill, he said, "This legislation provides for the inclusion of children who are disadvantage because of disability. The upper age limit for such children would be 18 instead of 16 for others."
Earlier during the debate on the Bill, Rama Devi (BJP) came down heavily on the present education system in the country and said it was only examination based and had failed to inculcate values and groom talent of the students.Her impassioned speech was welcomed by several members, including women MPs from the Treasury Benches despite her criticism of the government.
Making his maiden intervention, Ijyaraj Singh (Cong) said there should be a concept of neighbourhood schools on the lines of the East Asian countries.He said the country should encourage private schools to reserve seats for the weaker sections but prevent rise of inspector raj in the new system.
Mirza Baig (NC) said Jammu and Kashmir was the first state to implement free and compulsory education in the country.
He said the state of government schools in the country was so pathetic that none of the MPs would send their children to these schools.
Asadudin Owaisi (MIM) made some suggestions for improving the "supply side" of education.He said public-private partnership should not be encouraged in education.He demanded implementation of the Food Security Act to improve attendance in schools".
Rajan Sushant (BJP) described the Bill as "important, inclusive and historic".
He warned against increasing "centralisation of industries" and influence of western values in India.He suggested that anganwadi should be opened along with schools, special provisions should be made for disabilities, and check population growth for better focus
India with over billion population has the Right of freedom of speech,has now Right of free education but this right cannot be executed without the Right to free health and Right to social security beacuse each right is dependent on the rights of others.Absence of Right to free health and social security With one milieu of right to free education will remain an act enacted but fail to remained in practice with many applied and practical tests at the application levels.
Without defining the nursery and primary schools and the neighbhourhood schools,state will have no unilateral standard and thus education imparted will have various order of the day as is being perceived today.Question was well taken and raised by Bhagwat Z Aazad BJP MP,former cricketer and other MPs in course of discussion on the floor of house before the bill was put to vote.
With the bill enacted with constitution povision dating back 60 years ago has its own folly.Education do begins from the age of five but who is responsible to bring the child mind to develope till this hybrid age it is naturally a play schol and thus without the mapping of play school the right of free education remain a distant dream.
Even private sector having their own standards of Play scholl will indulge in the education gimmick for child potential.
Resultant of free education,standards are not set for the student at cross road of 15 yrs.Do the act provides vocational or academic career therafter 15 yrs which is most important.
Certificate of 15 years of schooling authorise the student to go for certificate,diploma or degree course are variied unanswered questions.But we all are happy that a step has been taken by the HRD Minister Kapil Sibal who has defintely clear,pure intentions to make the education move forward to bring the masses to give ample opportunity to education and schooling does not remain in the hands of fedual lords.
His higher conscience too reflected his cause of free education straiht from his heart when he said India’s ratio of schooling kids going to graduate level is 100 : 12 which will not help India to compete in the global education and shall try our level best to enhance upto 100:35, great call,candid words.
Parliament has passed the historic Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill 2008 following its approval by the Lok Sabha today. It envisages providing free and compulsory education to children in the age bracket of 6-14.
The landmark Bill also allows 25 percent reservation to weaker sections in all schools at the entry level. Rajya Sabha has already passed the bill. Replying the discussion in the Lok Sabha, human resource development minister Kapil Sibal said that the onus is now on the government to ensure that all children get free and quality education.
He asserted that it is for the first time in the history of the country that differentlyabled children are also being integrated in to a normal school. Calling it a national enterprise, Mr.Sibal said that the state must come forward to cooperate in this endeavour. Our parliamentary correspondent gives an overview.
AIR correspondent Manikant Thakur reports from Parliament that getting educated comes under Human Rights and finally the dream of free and compulsory education for all children in India seems to be shaping up. Seeking to carry out radical changes in the primary education pattern, the legislation states that no child shall be required to pass any Board examination till completion of elementary education. Schools taking capitation fees will be penalised and the child or parents can not be subjected to any screening procedure before admission. The bill also seeks to ban private tuition by teachers and ensure that no child is subjected to physical punishment or mental harassment. It shall be the duty of every parent or the guardian to admit the child to a neighbourhood school .No child will be denied admission for lack of age proof. Having said all this, some homework is yet to be done .As per an estimation, the financial requirement to implement the act will be about 2.28 lakh crore rupees for a period of 7 years. Apart from the existing schemes, the government will have to spend an additional 12,000 crore rupees per annum for its implementation. The share of financial burden is yet to be worked out between the state and the centre. Seeking a uniform and quality education is not an easy task.One has to wait and watch for the good things to happen.
The bill was originally initiated in the Rajya Sabha in December 2008 by the former human resource development minister Mr.Arjun Singh. Mr.Kirti Azad of the BJP initiated the discussion in the Lok Sabha.
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."
"However the states are free to provide pre-school education to children since these days education starts at the age of three or four years in the country", he said.
In a reply to the question asked by Jayaprada (SP) about inclusion of children with disability under the Bill, he said, "This legislation provides for the inclusion of children who are disadvantage because of disability. The upper age limit for such children would be 18 instead of 16 for others."
Earlier during the debate on the Bill, Rama Devi (BJP) came down heavily on the present education system in the country and said it was only examination based and had failed to inculcate values and groom talent of the students.Her impassioned speech was welcomed by several members, including women MPs from the Treasury Benches despite her criticism of the government.
Making his maiden intervention, Ijyaraj Singh (Cong) said there should be a concept of neighbourhood schools on the lines of the East Asian countries.He said the country should encourage private schools to reserve seats for the weaker sections but prevent rise of inspector raj in the new system.
Mirza Baig (NC) said Jammu and Kashmir was the first state to implement free and compulsory education in the country.
He said the state of government schools in the country was so pathetic that none of the MPs would send their children to these schools.
Asadudin Owaisi (MIM) made some suggestions for improving the "supply side" of education.He said public-private partnership should not be encouraged in education.He demanded implementation of the Food Security Act to improve attendance in schools".
Rajan Sushant (BJP) described the Bill as "important, inclusive and historic".
He warned against increasing "centralisation of industries" and influence of western values in India.He suggested that anganwadi should be opened along with schools, special provisions should be made for disabilities, and check population growth for better focus
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