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Fundamental Right to Education and The Constitution: A Critical Review of Laws, Policies and Programmes book cover

1st Edition

Fundamental Right to Education and The Constitution A Critical Review of Laws, Policies and Programmes

By Niranjanaradhya V.P. Copyright 2026
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge
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This collection examines the fundamental right to education in India through thirty scholarly essays and policy analyses. The work critically evaluates the Right to Education Act, National Education Policy developments, and constitutional provisions for equitable education. Contributors analyze textbook controversies, privatization impacts, and implementation challenges affecting disadvantaged... Read more

Preface

Foreword

Dr. Niranjanaradhya's Musings on the Right to Education

  1. The Revision of School Textbooks in Karnataka Must Cause Alarm

  2. We are Only Changing What was False in Textbooks vs Changes Should Not be to Promote Political Ideology

  3. Interview | Karnataka Government Taking Sides in Hijab Row, Muslim Girls May Become Targets: Expert

  4. Restore the Rights of Children

  5. RTE Act Weakened by Lack of Will

  6. The Draft Report to Evolve a National Education Policy Lacks Perspective to Build an Egalitarian Society Based on the Constitutional Values

  7. The Draft National Education Policy Lacks Public Good Perspective of Education

  8. The RTE Amendment Act, 2019: A Monument of Governmental Failure?

  9. Community Participation: Founding Stone of Universalisation of Quality Education in the Neighbourhood

  10. National Education Policy: Far-Sighted Vision Needed

  11. Education Still Eludes the Disadvantaged

  12. Common Schooling Can Ensure Equality

  13. Don't Review 'No-Detention' Policy

  14. Queries and Replies Found Wanting

  15. New Education Policy: Opening the System to the Market?

  16. Fee Fixation Against the Larger Social Good

  17. The Right to Education, Constitution and the Common School System in India

  18. Denying Education by Privatisation

  19. Saffronisation Plan Violates National Curriculum Framework

  20. Misusing the 'Minority' Clause in the Right to Education Act

  21. Government Apathy Ensures That Right to Education Remains on Paper

  22. Constitution is Above the Gita

  23. People's Constitutional Right to Education Versus the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009

  24. Still Born Legislation!

  25. Flaws in the Right to the Education Bill

  26. Equitable Quality Education is Every Child's Birthright

  27. Towards a Comprehensive Education Policy

  28. Children Need Space for Interaction

  29. Maximum Autonomy Will Be the Best Option

  30. A Multi-Pronged Approach Vital

Biography

Niranjanaradhya VP has PhD in Education and is well known as a Development Educationist and Mentor of School Development and Monitoring Committees (SDMC) in Karnataka. He is known for his outstanding contribution to strengthen public education by strengthening government schools in the nation through which he aims to build a Common School System based on the neighbourhood school principle, to ensure equitable quality education to all children. He has extensively researched, taught, networked, lobbied and advocated on issues related to school education, especially on the nuances of making government schools functional to deliver equitable quality education through the participatory research process. 

“This book is remarkable for its pithy remarks in the form of aphorisms and axioms on the current issues of school education.

On the whole, this book stands out as one of the most valuable and brilliant additions to the current literature on school education in India.”

-Muchkund Dubey, Diplomat and Foreign Secretary, India

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