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NEET| “Behind abstract number of ‘15 lakh students’ lie human lives”; SC asks NTA to rectify injustice caused to a “one-off” PwBD student

“Education plays a key role in social and economic inclusion and effective participation in society. Inclusive education is indispensable for ensuring universal and non-discriminatory access to education.”

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Pupil-teacher ratio for special schools; special teachers for Children with Special Needs in general schools: Here’s SC’s stopgap arrangement till Centre notifies norms

Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of AM Khanwilkar*, Dinesh Maheshwari and CT Ravikumar, JJ has directed the Central Government to notify the

Case Briefs High Courts

Raj HC | State not to come in the way of performance of statutory obligation by the schools provided under the RTE Act, 2009

Rajasthan High Court: A Division bench of Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Farjand Ali granted interim relief against State’s directions to prohibit admission

Case Briefs High Courts

Bom HC | Can minority educational institution refuse admission to autistic child contravening statutory direction given before grant of minority status? Court answers

Bombay High Court: The Division Bench of R.D. Dhanuka and R.I. Chagla, JJ., addressed a petition revolving around the Right to Education

Case Briefs Supreme Court

COVID-19| Schools can’t profit from unutilised facilities; Rajasthan Schools to provide 15% deduction of annual fees for academic year 2020-21: Supreme Court

“The school Management supposedly engaged in doing charitable activity of imparting education, is expected to be responsive and alive to that situation and take necessary remedial measures to mitigate the hardship suffered by the students and their parents. It is for the school Management to reschedule payment of school fee in such a way that not even a single student is left out or denied opportunity of pursuing his/her education, so as to effectuate the adage “live and let live”.”

Case Briefs Supreme Court

COVID-19| Financial disability of parents/guardians should not hinder education of children restored from Child Care Institutions; Supreme Court issues directions

Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of L. Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ajay Rastogi, JJ has issued directions to ensure education of

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Know Your Rights| Right to education

Under the Constitution This right guarantees free and compulsory education for children between the age of 6 to 14 years in India under

Case Briefs Supreme Court

All is not lost for Shiksha Mitras as SC dismisses their plea challenging 2019 Assistant Teachers’ recruitment process but asks UP Govt to give them a third chance

Uttar Pradesh Government can now fill up 69, 000 posts in terms of the result declared on 12.05.2020.

Case Briefs High Courts

[Right to Education] Kar HC | Reprimands ‘State’ action against establishing private schools; Compared ‘State’ action to a village priest chanting hymns without knowing its meanings

Karnataka High Court: Krishna S. Dixit J., issued a writ of certiorari to quash the impugned orders and sent back the issue

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Know Your Rights| Child Labour

STOP Child Labour- It promotes jobs & protects people.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Payal Tadvi suicide| SC says accused doctors, as “presumably innocent persons”, entitled to study; allows all 3 to resume studies in the same college

Even a convict is allowed to have academic pursuits while undergoing sentence and develop his potential as a human being to the fullest.

Case Briefs High Courts

Ker HC | “People of Elambra have been fighting against the might of State Govt. for 35 years to establish a lower primary school”; Kerala Govt. strictly directed to establish a Government LP School at Elambra village with all promptness

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Case Briefs High Courts

COVID-19 | Ker HC | Additional fees to facilitate virtual classrooms, not to be levied; Right to education is sacrosanct in Constitution of India

Kerala High Court: C.S. Dias, J., while referring the present petition to a Division Bench of the Court stated that, Right to education

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Article 370| SC refuses to restore 4G internet services in Jammu and Kashmir; Constitutes a 3-member committee to take a call

Supreme Court: A 3-judge bench of NV Ramana, R. Subhash Reddy and BR Gavai, JJ has constituted a three-member committee to look

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Article 370| SC reserves order on restoration of 4G internet services in Jammu and Kashmir

Supreme Court: The Court has reserved its order on a batch of petitions seeking restoration of 4G internet services in Jammu and

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

NHRC | Chilla Khadar village in Delhi does not have a school which forces the children to ride a boat to attend school — Violation of RTE

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, India has taken suo-motu cognizance of a media report that Chilla Khadar village in Delhi does

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Can’t interpret “by another year” under Rule 105 of Delhi School Education Rules 1973 as “by one year at a time”: SC

Supreme Court: The bench of Dr DY Chandrachud and Aniruddha Bose, JJ has held that the words “by another year” in Rule

Case Briefs High Courts

All HC | State to re-examine matter in light of inclusion of Right to Education in the Constitution

Allahabad High Court: This petition was filed before a Bench of Ajay Bhanot, J., where the application for listing on grant-in-aid list

Case Briefs High Courts

State policy appointing government school teachers on the basis of merit upheld; Students have a right to be taught by meritorious teachers under RTE Act

Madhya Pradesh High Court: A Division Bench comprising of CJ Hemant Gupta and Vijay Kumar Shukla, J. while hearing a batch of

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Aadhaar Hearing [Day 19]: Counsels appearing for petitioners conclude their submissions

The counsels appearing for various petitioners in the final hearing on the Aadhaar matter that has been going on since 17.01.2018, finally