Students Protest for their Education

CHANDIGARH : A large numbers of students of Chandigarh schools, colleges and Panjab university including parents and some teachers gathered at Panjab University Students Centre for protest against the reluctance of management of private schools in Chandigarh to the implementation of Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE), 2009. As per the RTE Act Act 25% of the students from the poor families are are to be admitted in the private schools whose expenses of education would be borne by the govt. It is worth remembering that it took seven years to pass the act in 2009 and was suppoesed to be implimented from the last academic session. The management of private schools on one or the other pretext are not willing to implement the Act even from the forthcoming session in 2011. Seventy two private schiools in Chandigarh and if students from neighbourhood are not admitted this year it will amount to the violation of the basic premises of the Act. Educationb is not be reduced to profit making business. It is sad that some private schools instead of making ventures of making education as their mission and social service have reduced it to profit making ventures at the cost of helpless parents. Gathering reminded that nearly half of the children of poor people are still deprived of quality edication and they are eventally forced to end up working as child labour. The Act is the revelutionary provision and it is the duty of every parents and conscious citizen to see the act is implemented n the is letter and spirit.