Right to Education : A Fundamental Right

Right to Education : A Fundamental Right

The aim and goals set forth in the Preamble to our Constitution can be achieved only by educating the subjects of the State. Education will bring the awareness among the citizens of this Nation about their rights and duties in the society. Once they become aware about their rights and duties in its letter and spirit, the aliments crept in our society, automatically vanish. The right to education has been declared a Fundamental Right by way of Eighty Sixth Amendment to theConstitution in the year 2002. It exhorted and declared that-

“21-a Right to Education-The State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years in such manner as the state may be law, determine”.

This Fundamental right is workable in two fold manner, firstly, casting duty upon the state to provide free and compulsory education, secondly, failure of the state, the subjects can enforce their fundamental right through the recourse of law i.e. approaching the court. The subjects are individuals ranging from the age of six to fourteen. They cannot approach the court being incompetent (minor), so this right can be enforced

through their guardian be if natural or otherwise. Surprisingly, guardians are either ill equipped or not well informed and aware. So this can be made reality only by the social awareness groups/individuals in the society, by two means, firstly, to make the people aware about the duty of the State to provide free education secondly, in case of failure of the State to fulfill this constitutional obligation, either approaching directly to the Court or educating the guardians of children to get the Fundamental Right enforced through court of law. Once we achieve this objective of right to education a reality, the day will not be far away in achieving the principles, aims and goals our freedom fighters and Constitution makers visualized through Preamble.