Being a long time now the education bill has been passed in the India enabling millions children to have an free access to education .Yes its a long and hefty process to educate all the children in India and having a quota system in all the schools which will enable to make study up to grade 8 free. The Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal termed it as "historic" legislation providing for free and compulsory education for all children in the 6 to 14 age-group.
How should ‘Right to Education’ be defined?
The RTE however raises more a fundamental question: how exactly is
right to education to be defined? In 1993, in its landmark
Unnikrishnan judgement, the Supreme Court declared that from birth
until the age of 14, children were entitled to free and compulsory
education and this was accorded the status of a basic right. Children
below the age of 6 were to be given adequate nutrition, healthcare, a
safe childhood, and pre-primary education (KG, nursery). Children
between the ages of 6 and 14 were granted the basic right to primary
education for these eight years. This is the most widely accepted
definition of the ‘Right to Education’: namely – the right of all
children until the age of 14 to nutrition, healthcare, safety, and
education of an equitable standard free of cost.