Historic judgement

After the legislation of RTE by Parliament, the constitutional validity given to it by the Supreme Court is a historic judgement. It will prove to be the cornerstone in the universalization of education in our country. Knowledge is power. So, the empowerment of society can not be complete without educating it properly. The poor can be talented and intelligent. But the poor children fail due to the resource crunch to attend schools and their lives are spoilt and the country remain deprived of the talented service. With constitutional validity to RTE, now talented and meritous will be compelled to leave school only because they belong to economically and socially backward.There must not be any connection between talent and wealth. If the children are talented and intelligent and of exceptional brilliance, they must be given all sorts of facilities for higher studies irrespective of their social and economic status. Education is the mirror of society. As far as our society is concerned, educationally at least we are the most backward. And it does not behoove of us to be called the largest democracy with largest number of illiterate and uneducated population. The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutional validity of the Right to Education Act, 2009, which mandates 25 pc free seats to the poor in Govt and private unaided schools uniformly across the country. It is a landmark judgement because the education urgently needed to be given constitutional right in true sense of the term. Education in our country had become the prerogative of the wealthy class of society. Economically weak parents are not in position to send their children to even government schools, what to talk of unaided private schools. Even after nominal waiving of school fees in Government schools and after bringing Right to Education into effect, the meritorious and talented students of weak socio-economic group fail to get access to education, though in recent years the government has initiated programmes for helping poor students. The apex court clarified that its judgement will come into force from Thursday and, hence, it will not apply to admissions granted after the enactment of the legislation.In other words, the apex court said the judgement will only have a prospective affect and not retrospective affect.