Education for Children

Chandrashekhar the Great  


SHRI CHANDRA SHEKHAR : Sir, only this morning, we had a very magnificent programme remembering our Constitution. Does the Minister remember that there is a Directive Principle in the Constitution that children till the age of 14 will get free and compulsory education? If that Directive Principle was there, then why this new exercise for making education a fundamental right to the children? When this was already there in the Constitution, why did the Government not take some steps to implement the Directive Principle of State Policy in the Constitution? Why does he give all this story of State Education Ministers Conference and the attempts that he is making...(Interruptions)

SHRI CHANDRA SHEKHAR : Will an illiterate Advasi be able to go to court? Let us not indulge in these things. These are serious matters...(Interruptions)

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