SUPREME COURT: THE RIGHT OF CHILDREN TO FREE AND COMPULSORY EDUCATION BILL, 2008, IS PROPOSED TO BE ENACTED WHICH SEEKS TO PROVIDE,- (a) that every child has a right to be provided full time elementary education of satisfactory and equitable quality in a formal school which satisfied certain essential norms and standards; (b) ‘compulsory education’ casts an obligation on the appropriate Government to provide and ensure admission, attendance and completion of elementary education; (c) ‘free education’ means that no child, other than a child who has been admitted by his or her parents to a school which is not supported by the appropriate Government, shall be liable to pay any kind of fee or charges or expenses which may prevent him or her from pursuing and completing elementary education; (d) the duties and responsibilities of the appropriate Governments, local authorities, parents, schools and teachers in providing free and compulsory education; and (e) a system for protection of the right of children and a decentralized grievance redressal mechanism. STATE OF U.P V. SHIV KUMAR PATHAK CIVIL APPEAL NOS. 4347-4375 OF 2014, DECIDED ON: 17.12.2014
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