It has been three years since India’s right to education law came into force. Except for a provision on teacher’s qualifications, compliance on all other provisions was to have been completed in this period.

In the past month, the shutting down of 473 private schools in Punjab for not complying with the law that provides for free and compulsory education and its potential impact on 37,800 children has made news. The Delhi State Private Schools Association has said nearly 700 private schools in Delhi may similarly face closure. Are all government schools compliant with these rules? If primary schools run by the government have not complied with the law, they need to be shut down as well. Selective application of the law and its implementation is ethically unjustifiable. Read More

Jyothi Shankaran

    Jyothi’s last role was as Senior Editor with the business news channel Bloomberg TV India. He also worked as News Editor at business-standard.com, the online version of the business newspaper Business Standard. Jyothi is a chemical engineer from the Regional Engineering College, Srinagar.