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.
Well written
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