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Right to education

Sir, — This has reference to `Education as a fundamental right' by V. Krishna Ananth (May 5). Unless right to education is made a fundamental right and enforceable, and all children up to the age of 14 years are offered compulsory education by the State, there is no guarantee of an elite, egalitarian and meaningful society as formulated by the framers of the Constitution and the signatories of the U.N. Charter.

There cannot be any difference of opinion among the members of Parliament on a national and non-political issue of this kind.

The author has rightly pointed out that the 93rd Amendment should have found its way in long before and the Union Ministers for Law and Human Resource Development should have taken steps for getting it passed. We hope the Government will take immediate steps in this direction.

K. Kumarappan and T.C. Linganna,
Chennai

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