Minority Benefits

Author(s): Babita Jain
Publisher: Shrut Samvardhan Samsthan

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Applicability of Right to Education Act in Minority Schools.
The Constitutional bench of Supreme Court in the judgment dated 6th May, 2014 in Pramati Educational & Cultural Trust R & Others Versus Union of India & Ors. (in Writ Petition (C) No. 416 of 2012 reported in "2014 AIR SCW 2859" and "(2014) 8 SCC 1" held that the 2009 Act i.e. (the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009) insofar as it applies to minority schools, aided or unaided, covered under clause (1) of Article 30 of the Constitution is ultra vires the Constitution.
The aforesaid propositions of law establishes that RTE Act, 2009 is not applicable to Minority schools, aided or unaided, at all.
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