In Part I of the post, we had looked at the arguments, opinions and decision of the Supreme Court on the 93rd amendment. In this part, let us look at the same judgement with respect to Article 21A of the Constitution. (Note: It would help if one goes through Part I so the background and... Continue Reading →

From a #Core point of view, there can be no dispute that the "Pramati Educational and Cultural Trust and Others Vs Union of India and Others" judgement on the issues of validity of the 93rd amendment to the Indian Constitution and the validity of Article 21A/RTE Act is the single most important judgement in India's... Continue Reading →

In India, there are many tribunals established over the past few decades with the aim of delivering speedy and efficient justice over disputes, that can otherwise take years to get addressed. The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT), the Armed Forces Tribunal and the National... Continue Reading →

It has been argued since a while now that implementing the RTE Act for only Hindu schools will be detrimental to them, while at the same time helping proliferation of minority schools. This article attempts to find out if this is indeed happening. Given the lack of direct data, information from multiple sources had to... Continue Reading →

There are a number of articles, opinion posts and research material on the internet that evaluate the benefits and shortcomings of India's Right to Information (RTI) Act. While I have my own reservations about how it has been enacted and implemented, I will stay away from any comments on that in this article. Here, I... Continue Reading →

A few weeks ago, we had looked at the sectarian bias that exists in Central Government scholarships with respect to SC/STs and Minorities. A little more digging reveals an even abysmal state when it comes to scholarships for OBCs. On the 15th of December 2015, in the Lok Sabha, an Unstarred question was asked to... Continue Reading →

October-2015: The Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) constitutes a committee, known as the TSR Subramanian Committee, for 'Evolution of the New Education Policy'. The committee is led by former Cabinet Secretary Sri TSR Subramanian. April-2016: The TSR Subramanian Committee submits its report to the MHRD. In the words of the ministry itself... "The Committee... Continue Reading →

This is a short post guided by a discussion that happened on Twitter on whether the UPA Government was pro-actively working towards keeping minority educational institutions out of the purview of the RTE Act. In 2012, on April 12, the Supreme Court pronounced its judgement in the Unaided Private Schools of Rajasthan v Union of... Continue Reading →

During the Constituent Assembly debates which led to the construction of our Constitution as it stands today, a lot of discussion took place on the clauses related to Article 29. However discussions on Article 30 were very limited. However, one interesting debate that did come up is very much relevant to the sectarian mess that... Continue Reading →

Since it is the season for analyzing sectarian Government schemes, here goes one more... 🙂 The aim of this post is to provide a comparison of the scholarship schemes implemented by the Government of Karnataka for Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes and Minority students, studying in pre-matic classes. The pre-matric scholarship scheme for SC/ST students is managed... Continue Reading →