GYANODAYA - The Journal of Progressive Education

  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 2

Right to education act 2009: revisited

  • Author:
  • Praveen Mishra1, Manoranjan Jha2, Latika Gupta3
  • Total Page Count: 12
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 52 to 63

1Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Tripura University

2Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Tripura University

3Research Scholar, MG Kashi Vidya Peeth, Varanasi

Abstract

“Education is an investment made by the nation in its children for harvesting a future crop of responsible adults productive of a well functioning Society”

Basic education stresses the four-fold development in human personality, namely body, mind, heart and spirit. True education stimulates the spiritual intellectual and physical facilities of individual. The Right to Education Act 2009 has been legislated with the object to honour the values of equality, social justice and democracy. It aims to Create just and humane society and to promote the quality of children from disadvantaged sections. The paper is an attempt to give the readers an insight to the Right to Education Act 2009 and should be taken as a review of the Act in hand.

Keywords

Education, Investment Four-Fold Development, Equality, Social, Justice, Democracy