India is the earth’s second most populated country, with children constituting around 39 percent of the total population. Because youngsters are the nation’s tomorrow, their education is critical for any society.
The nation has entered a point in its financial and technological growth when a concerted effort is required to maximise the value of assets already generated and to guarantee that the rewards of transformation reach all sectors, and literacy is the means to that end. Certain articles of the Indian Constitution have been enacted to guarantee child Education in India:
1) Minority Literacy-Article 30 of the Constitution Of India addresses various educational and cultural liberties, including the power to construct and run schools.
2) Schooling of Weaker Sections-Articles 15, 17, and 46 protect the educational objectives of the Indian Population’s weaker sections, which include socially and intellectually inferior groups of people, as well as ST and SC.
3) College Literacy and Research- Assembly has sole legislative authority over the organizations and Union Organizations included in Joint List items 63, 64, 65, and 66.
4) Equality of Chance in Academic Institutions-The basic right to fairness clearly states that no discrimination may be formed in the legal sense based on any status, caste, religion, or creed. Along with this, everyone has the freedom to equal chances. Equality of chance is useless unless equal chances for education exist.
The government has made numerous efforts and created different programmes to encourage child education, such as-
1) Samagra Shiksha, which has been developed with the overarching objective of enhancing school performance as evaluated by equal access to education and fair learning results.
2) Meal at Mid-day To improve enrolment, engagement, and attendance while also increasing nutritional standards among kids, a planned Mid-Day Lunch was to have been given at government-aided elementary schools.
3) The Strategy for Infrastructure Growth in Minority Organizations promotes minority schooling by expanding and upgrading school building in Minority Organizations in sequence to enhance formal education opportunities for students from minority populations.