Apex Child Rights Body’s report claimed ‘Minority Schools in India Violating Norms’

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has released a report — The “Impact of Exemption under Article 15 (5) with regards to Article 21A of the Constitution of India on Education of Children in Minority Communities’’.

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In this report, it has assessed minority schools (schools run by minority organisations) in the country.

Minority schools are exempt from implementing The Right to Education policy and do not fall under the government’s Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.

Through this report, the NCPCR has recommended that these schools be brought under both RTE and SA, amongst a host of other recommendations.

In 2006, the 93rd Constitution Amendment Act inserted Clause (5) in Article 15 which enabled the State to create special provisions, such as reservations for advancement of any backward classes of citizens like Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, in all aided or unaided educational institutes, except minority educational institutes.