Still Not Right ;

the Hrd Ministry, in Its Desperation to Pass the Right to Education Bill, has Neither Allocated the Required Money nor Resolved the Ambiguities in Its Drafting.

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Thanks to a printing error, the Right to Education Bill was mentioned as the "Fight" to Education Bill in one of the Parliament bulletins.

With its complicated contest of grand visions and disappointing shortfalls, ambitions and embarrassments, the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, to give it its full name, which hopes to cover the 10 crore children between the ages of six and 14 who are out of school, is indeed threatening to live up to the printer's devil.

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Still Not Right ;

the Hrd Ministry, in Its Desperation to Pass the Right to Education Bill, has Neither Allocated the Required Money nor Resolved the Ambiguities in Its Drafting.

Promising free and compulsory elementary education in a neighbourhood school and ensuring easy access to education unhindered by capitation fee, the bill, which was passed in the first session of the 15th Lok Sabha, says Kendriya Vidyalayas, Navodaya Vidyalayas, Sainik schools, and unaided schools should admit at least 25...

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