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Amendment to Education Bill passed, disability net widened
Aarti Dhar
The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory
Education (Amendment) Bill 2010 that widens the net for disabled children
bringing within its purview children with severe disability. Such children
would have the option of receiving education at home.
It gives school management committees an advisory role in minority schools,
both aided and unaided, and puts madrasas and Vedic schools and other
institutions providing primarily religious instruction outside the mandate of
the Act.
Moving the Bill, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said it
provided the right to receive home-based education to children with severe
disabilities.
Mr. Sibal said: "It is a historic piece of legislation and will have a huge
impact on quality education to children between classes 1 and 8 in the 6-14 age
group."
"The Bill will change the way we look at education. You can have a [piece of]
legislation but it needs to be implemented," he said and called for involving
key stakeholders, including children, parents, non-governmental organisations
and schools and not just the government alone.
Mr. Sibal said parents would have the option of providing home-based education
to children with severe disabilities and said the clause should not be used as
an instrument by institutions to deny them admission.
This is the first education bill passed in Parliament in two years. The
Minister hoped that all pending education bills would also be passed as these
dealt with the future of children. There are 13 pending education bills in
Parliament.
Mr. Sibal pointed out that the amendment goes beyond the orders of the Supreme
Court, which kept unaided minority schools out of the purview of the Act. As
per the amendment, the school management committee will not have the final
authority in all minority schools and its role will be advisory.
Though not within the purview of the amendment, Mr. Sibal responded to issues
raised about the 25 per cent quota for children from economically weaker
sections.
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