K. VINOD CHANDRAN, ASHUTOSH KUMAR, RAJIV ROY
Bibi Sakina Khatoon – Appellant
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Union of India – Respondent
K. Vinod Chandran, CJ. – Unqualified and untrained teachers are the bane of any system of education, in which, the students; often celebrated as the citizens of tomorrow, wallow in ignorance and get mired in misinformation, thus, stultifying the development and growth of a Nation State. Quite realizing the importance of a robust educational system; for maintaining and upgrading the teaching standards, with a vision to strengthen the social fabric of democracy and further the Directive Principles of State Policy, the crucial role of elementary education was emphasized by the Union Parliament in enacting the Right of Children to Free And Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (‘RTE Act’, in abbreviation), mandating free and compulsory education to all children up to the age of 14 years.
2. The statement of objects and reasons indicate that despite numerical expansion of elementary schools, the goal of universal elementary education eludes us as a Nation, also by reason of the ever increasing drop-outs from the disadvantaged and weaker sections; which prompted the subject enactment, aimed at enabling full time elementary education to every child, as a matter of right, expanding the horizons of
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