Education without textbooks. This is what the government is contemplating for pre-school children.
The government's looking at putting the onus of imparting pre-school education on anganwadis in the initial stage.
The RTE Act, 2009 obligates the government and the local authority to provide free and compulsory education to all children and ensure that every child in the age group 6-14 attends school during prescribed hours.
The Minister also said the government was considering universalising secondary education which could come through during the Five-Year Plan period beginning 2012. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in his Independence Day speech, mentioned universalisation of secondary education.
Mr. Sibal said an inter-ministerial group was thinking of putting a blanket ban on all forms of child labour. The Child Labor Act, 1986, prohibits engaging children below 14 in all occupations barring agriculture. Even in that sector, they could work only where tractors and threshing and harvesting machines are used. They cannot cut chaff or handle pesticides and insecticides.
The government's looking at putting the onus of imparting pre-school education on anganwadis in the initial stage.
The RTE Act, 2009 obligates the government and the local authority to provide free and compulsory education to all children and ensure that every child in the age group 6-14 attends school during prescribed hours.
The Minister also said the government was considering universalising secondary education which could come through during the Five-Year Plan period beginning 2012. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in his Independence Day speech, mentioned universalisation of secondary education.
Mr. Sibal said an inter-ministerial group was thinking of putting a blanket ban on all forms of child labour. The Child Labor Act, 1986, prohibits engaging children below 14 in all occupations barring agriculture. Even in that sector, they could work only where tractors and threshing and harvesting machines are used. They cannot cut chaff or handle pesticides and insecticides.