The document discusses the right to education in India. It provides background on education systems in India and describes the Right to Education Act passed in 2009 that makes education between ages 6-14 a fundamental right. It also discusses various government schemes aimed at improving access and quality of education such as Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan for universal elementary education and Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti for providing good quality education to rural children regardless of socioeconomic background. However, it notes that despite these schemes, illiteracy still persists in India and that individual efforts are also needed to fully address this issue.

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RIGHT TO
EDUCATION
CONTRIBUTIONS SARTHAK,
SHISHIR, GURNEESH, RAJAT,
ARJUN, PRINCE, DEWARK

2. • Education in its broadest, general sense is the means
through which the aims and habits of a group of people
lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it
occurs through any experience that has a formative
effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts. In its
narrow, technical sense, education is the formal
process by which society deliberately transmits its
accumulated knowledge,skills,customs and vaules fro
m one generation to another, e.g., instruction in
schools.
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3. • Education in India is provided by the public
sector as well as the private sector, with control
and funding coming from three
levels: federal,state, and local. The Nalanda
University was the oldest university-system of
education in the world.[2] Western education
became ingrained into Indian society with the
establishment of the British Raj.
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6. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory
Education Act or Right to Education Act (RTE),
which was passed by the Indian parliament on 4
August 2009, describes the modalities of the provision
of free and compulsory education for children between
6 and 14 in India under Article 21A of the Indian
Constitution.[1] India became one of 135 countries to
make education a fundamental right of every child
when the act came into force on 1 April 2010.
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7. • The right to education is a universal entitlement
to education, a right that is recognized as a human
right. According to the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights the right to
education includes the right to free, coan obligation to
develop secondary education accessible to all, in
particular by the progressive introduction of free
secondary education, as well as an obligation to
develop equitable access to higher education, ideally
by the progressive introduction of free higher
education compulsory primary education for all
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8. • In spite of certain outstanding examples of individual
achievement of Indian woman and a definite
improvement in their general condition over the last
one hundred years, it remains true that our woman still
constitute a large body of under - privileged citizens.
Women of course do not form a homogenous group in
class or caste terms. Nevertheless, they face
distinctive problems that call for special attention. The
Backward Classes Commission set up by the
Government of India in 1953 classified women of India
as a backward group requiring special attention.
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9. • The ministry of Education clubs girls with Scheduled
Castes and Tribes as the three most backward groups
in education. Ram Manohar Lohia considered the lot of
women to be similar to that of Harijans. Realizing the
enormity of the problems of Indian women the
Government of India has appointed a separate
committee on the Status of Women in India, The social
backwardness of Indian women points to the great
hiatus between their legal status which is more or less
equal to that of men, and their actual position in
society, which is still far from the ideal which exists on
paper. The educational, economic, political and social
backwardness of women makes them the largest
group hindering the process of rapid social change. 9

10. • Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is Government of
India's flagship programme for achievement of
Universalization of Elementary Education (UEE)
in a time bound manner, as mandated by 86th
amendment to the Constitution of India making
free and compulsory Education to the Children of
6-14 years age group, a Fundamental Right.
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11. • Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti
to provide good quality modern education to
the talented children predominantly from the rural
areas, without regard to their family's socio-
economic condition.
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12. From this presentation we want to convey
that although various schemes have been
launched, still illiteracy is prevailing in our
country. Only the schemes launched will
not remove illiteracy, a common man can
also take steps to remove it and thus
contribute his valuable step in
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