13/08/2021 - Education

KEY POINTS

·        Minority schools are exempt from implementing The Right to Education policy and do not fall under the government’s Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.

·        Through a  report, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has recommended that these schools be brought under both Right to Education act 2009  .

·        In 2014, while discussing the validity of exemption under Article 15 (5), the Supreme Court declared the RTE Act inapplicable to schools with minority status with the view that the Act should not interfere with the right of minorities to establish and administer institutions of their choice.

·        The report also finds that only 4.18% of total students received benefits such as freeships, free uniforms and books, scholarships, etc. from school.

·        The Commission has also found surges in the number of schools applying for minority status certificates after the 93rd amendment was brought in.

·        State governments need to introduce strict guidelines on the minimum percentage of minority students that these schools need to admit.

·        In 2016, there were 3.8 crore Muslim children in the ages of 6-14 years, of which 2.7 crore children were enrolled in schools and 1.1 crore were out of school.

·        The Commission has found the instructions in such schools to be deficient. according to the Commission, include extending both RTE Act and SSA to madarasas, so that the students can receive benefits of free midday meals, text books, uniforms, teaching-learning material, library, play material, computers, smart classes etc.

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