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Frame right to education rules, Delhi
government told
Wednesday November 09, 2011 09:56:47 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Delhi
High Court Wednesday directed the Delhi government to frame within
three weeks rules to provide free and compulsory education to
children under the right to education law.
Taking note of an NGO's plea seeking framing of rules to provide
free and compulsory education, acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and
Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw had earlier directed the Delhi
government's Principal (Secretary) Education Rakesh Mohan to be
personally present before it.
Mohan was personally present in the court. His counsel informed
the bench that the final rules had been approved by the Delhi
cabinet Nov 4 and sent to the the lieutenant governor for assent
Nov 8. These may be notified within three weeks.
The bench disposed off the petition saying: "The court notes that
the notified rules were required for the implementation of the
Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2011 and
directed the government to notify the rules in three weeks,
positively."
The court was hearing a by NGO Social Jurist filed through its
counsel Ashok Agarwal.
The petition said that the government did not seem to be serious
about making and notifying rules as required under the act.
This had resulted in continuous violation of the right to
education of lakhs of children in the capital, it said.
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