Saturday 25 August 2012

Fundamental rights – Education

Fundamental rights – Education

As citizens of India, we are honored to have 7 fundamental rights. Right to education is one fundamental right that says that everyone in India should have right to education without any bias, prejudice or malaise. Education / literacy is the need of the hour. It is said that a thief can steal your ornaments, money, mobile, electronics, currency but he cannot steal the education. Education is your real ornament.

Educated citizens lead to prosperity and development of the country and eradicates poverty and manual labor. If the woman of the house is educated, she knows the importance of education and would like her kids as well to have good education. This leads to educated society which is away from poverty.

Right to education should be for everyone irrespective of caste, creed, religion and sex. Government of India has introduced many schemes via which the families of lower income group can get their kids educated with financial help available from the government or funded by the schools. Many primary government schools have been opened which provide free education and meal to the kids.

Let's take an example on how education changed society – when British came to India very less number of people were educated in the global sense and literacy level was low. British wanted local people to fill some positions which they could not fill by bringing more Britishers from England. They opened educational institutes which gave global standard education and helped some of our folks to learn what was happening in the world. Made some of our leaders to know about the global trends, labor struggles, Marxism and American freedom struggle. It gave them the strong belief to make India free and have independence. The language English has also helped Indian's in the current decade to be the Outsourcing hub for jobs coming from US, UK and other developed countries. Education can transform a nation and we should strive to get more and more people educated.

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