Introduction On July 3, 2025, private unaided schools across Andhra Pradesh staged a statewide bandh, shutting their doors in a unified protest against what school management associations described as “arbitrary and unilateral actions” by local officials in implementing Section 12(1)(C) of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009. This provision mandates that private unaided schools […]
New Delhi, April 28, 2025 – The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2024, released by the Pratham Foundation, paints a sobering picture of India’s rural education landscape. While the report celebrates near-universal school enrollment, it raises alarms over stagnant learning outcomes, with half of Grade 5 students unable to read Grade 2-level texts or […]
Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) has submitted a comprehensive contribution to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Ms. Farida Shaheed, on the topic of “Safety as an aspect of the right to education and as a precondition to its full realization.” This submission was made in response to a call for […]