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Plea for including madrasas, Vedic schools under RTE
February 17 , 2022
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- The Supreme Court has refused to intervene in a petition challenging sections of the Right to Education Act of 2009 which exclude Vedic pathsalas, madrasas, and institutions imparting religious education from its ambit.
- The Court observed that the exclusion of these institutions was specifically inserted into the 2009 Act by an amendment of August 2012 and since then there has never been any controversy in the past decade.
Issue
- The petitioner said, 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 a child’s social-economic, and cultural background.
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