Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court on Monday made it clear that it was the responsibility of the state governments of both AP and TS to implement the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009. A division bench, comprising Acting Chief Justice Dilip B. Bhosale and Justice P. Naveen Rao, was dealing with a batch of petitions seeking to direct the TS and AP governments to ensure that the unaided non-minority schools to implement the Act, 2009 and provide 25 per cent seats to poor children.
Justice Bhosale said “RTE is an Act which is a law and the governments have to abide by it. Education is the Right of children and governments cannot escape from their responsibility to provide education to children who are the future of this country.”
When TS AAG J. Ramachandra Rao urged the court to adjourned the case for three weeks as the government intended to issue a circular to all aided and unaided schools in the state for implementation of 25 per cent free seats to poor children, the bench said that several opportunities to implement the Act had been given. Asking both the state governments to issue circulars to all the schools in both states within two weeks and place the copies of the circulars before the court, the bench adjourned the case for two weeks.
