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                          NewsEducation TodayNewsSupreme Court rejects PIL seeking changes in Right to Education Act (RTE)

                          Supreme Court rejects PIL seeking changes in Right to Education Act (RTE)

                          Supreme Court today rejected a PIL seeking changes in the Right to Education Act (RTE).

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                          Supreme Court today rejected a PIL seeking changes in the Right to Education Act (RTE). (Photo: PTI)
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                          New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 11, 2022 21:52 IST

                          The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a PIL which was seeking changes in the Right to Education (RTE) Act 2009. The PIL proposed a common syllabus and curriculum for students across the country and said that the RTE was “arbitrary and irrational".

                          Petitioner advocate Ashwini Upadhyay was asked to approach the high court for this case by the bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and BR Gavai.

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                          What was the motive of the PIL seeking changes in RTE?

                          The PIL was seeking to make changes in RTE in order to bring equality in education.

                          It stated that sections 1 (4) and 1 (5) of the RTE Act were the biggest barrier in expounding the Constitution.

                          It said that there was an absence of a common curriculum in the mother language because of which ignorance fostered.

                          The PIL said that children needed a common minimum education programme till the age of 14 so that they could achieve a code of common culture, along with the removal of disparity and depletion of discriminatory values in human relations.

                          It said that it was the union government’s duty to establish and make effective a common education system. However, since it had simply adopted the pre-existing National Curriculum Framework (NCF) of 2005, this necessary obligation had been failed.

                          Excerpts from the PIL

                          As per PTI, the PIL filed in Supreme Court stated: "Right of a child should not be restricted only to free education, but must be extended to have equal quality education without discrimination on the ground of child's social economic and cultural background.”

                          It added: “Therefore, the Court may declare Sections 1(4) and 1(5) arbitrary, irrational and violative of Articles 14, 15, 16 and 21 and direct the Centre to implement a common syllabus and common curriculum for the students of I-VIII standard throughout the country."

                          (With inputs from PTI)

                          Read: PIL filed in Supreme Court seeking common syllabus, curriculum for children across India

                          Read: Delhi HC refuses to entertain PIL against NCERT lesson on Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb

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