Right to education PRESENTATION

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RIGHT TO EDUCATION

CONTRIBUTIONS SARTHAK,

SHISHIR, GURNEESH, RAJAT,

ARJUN, PRINCE, DEWARK

• Education in its broadest, general sense is the means

through which the aims and habits of a group of people

lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it

occurs through any experience that has a formative

effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts. In its

narrow, technical sense, education is the formal

process by which society deliberately transmits its

accumulated knowledge,skills,customs and vaules fro

m one generation to another, e.g., instruction in

schools.

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• Education in India is provided by the public

sector as well as the private sector, with control

and funding coming from three

levels: federal,state, and local. The Nalanda

University was the oldest university-system of

education in the world.[2] Western education

became ingrained into Indian society with the

establishment of the British Raj.

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The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory

Education Act or Right to Education Act (RTE),

which was passed by the Indian parliament on 4

August 2009, describes the modalities of the provision

of free and compulsory education for children between

6 and 14 in India under Article 21A of the Indian

Constitution.[1] India became one of 135 countries to

make education a fundamental right of every child

when the act came into force on 1 April 2010.

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• The right to education is a universal entitlement

to education, a right that is recognized as a human

right. According to the International Covenant on

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights the right to

education includes the right to free, coan obligation to

develop secondary education accessible to all, in

particular by the progressive introduction of free

secondary education, as well as an obligation to

develop equitable access to higher education, ideally

by the progressive introduction of free higher

education compulsory primary education for all7

• In spite of certain outstanding examples of individual

achievement of Indian woman and a definite

improvement in their general condition over the last

one hundred years, it remains true that our woman still

constitute a large body of under - privileged citizens.

Women of course do not form a homogenous group in

class or caste terms. Nevertheless, they face

distinctive problems that call for special attention. The

Backward Classes Commission set up by the

Government of India in 1953 classified women of India

as a backward group requiring special attention.8

• The ministry of Education clubs girls with Scheduled Castes and Tribes as the three most backward groups in education. Ram Manohar Lohia considered the lot of women to be similar to that of Harijans. Realizing the enormity of the problems of Indian women the Government of India has appointed a separate committee on the Status of Women in India, The social backwardness of Indian women points to the great hiatus between their legal status which is more or less equal to that of men, and their actual position in society, which is still far from the ideal which exists on paper. The educational, economic, political and social backwardness of women makes them the largest group hindering the process of rapid social change.

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• Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is Government of

India's flagship programme for achievement of

Universalization of Elementary Education (UEE)

in a time bound manner, as mandated by 86th

amendment to the Constitution of India making

free and compulsory Education to the Children of

6-14 years age group, a Fundamental Right.

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• Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti

to provide good quality modern education to

the talented children predominantly from the rural

areas, without regard to their family's socio-

economic condition.

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From this presentation we want to convey

that although various schemes have been

launched, still illiteracy is prevailing in our

country. Only the schemes launched will

not remove illiteracy, a common man can

also take steps to remove it and thus

contribute his valuable step in

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