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The right to quality elementary education is now being recognized as the guiding principle of all government initiatives. But, in practice, a significant proportion of children are deprived of an ‘equal opportunity to learn’ at the primary stage of schooling. Children who join school with a first language that is very different from the one used as the medium of instruction at school, face a serious disadvantage in the early years that stunts their learning ...
Rough estimates indicate that nearly 60-70 million children in the age group of 6-13 years do not attend school in India and remain deprived of the basic right to learn. This despite the fact that the goal of the universalization of elementary education has been a stated objective of the Indian nation state since its inception and has received greater attention in the recent past. Existing information clearly reveals that the majority of children outside the ...