Judicial Response to Right to Education in India

Education as a tool is the most potent mechanism for the advancement of human beings. Education emancipates the human beings and leads to liberation from ignorance. Education is now being visioned as a human right and an instrument of social change. Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 by way of Article 26 (1) lays down that everyone has the right to education. The Beneficial Provision of Right to Education has been inserted into the Indian Constitution. In order the enactment of the Right to Education has brought several amendments in the Parliament. However, every state has duties to verify that the Right to Education policy reaches all the disadvantaged sections of the society. It is a constitutional mandate to provide free and compulsory elementary education to all Children until the age of 14.