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Allow EWS students to complete studies in private schools: PIL
A PIL was filed in the Delhi High Court on Friday to seek change in law to ensure students from poor families who pass Class 8 from private schools can complete their education up to senior secondary level. Civil rights group Social Jurist, which moved the court through advocate Ashok Agarwal, sought directions on extending Section 12 (1)(C) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Educati
New Delhi : A PIL was filed in the Delhi High Court on Friday to seek change in law to ensure students from poor families who pass Class 8 from private schools can complete their education up to senior secondary level. Civil rights group Social Jurist, which moved the court through advocate Ashok Agarwal, sought directions on extending Section 12 (1)(C) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act beyond Class 8 and up to Class 12.
The Public Interest Litigation is likely to come up for hearing next week.The petitioner said that it will help avoid interruption in studies, harassment of students of certain categories after passing Class 8 and help them in completing their basic education.
"After Class 8, students from Economically Weaker Sections and other disadvantaged groups are asked by schools authorities to leave because they are incapable of affording fee from Class 9 onwards," the plea said and added that such students are left with the only option to join government schools.
"Since government schools are Hindi-medium, these will not only be highly prejudicial to students' interest but also defeat the very object of providing free education in an unaided private school," the plea added."Their parents are not in a position to pay hefty fees in unaided private schools from Class 9 onwards," it added.
