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Landmark Indian education law comes into effect
- 04-01-2010
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By Anjana Pasricha/Voice of America
Indian students take lessons from their teacher inside a classroom at a school in Calcutta, India, In India, a landmark law which makes education a fundamental right for all children between six and 14, has come into effect. But many challenges lie ahead in ensuring access to education for all in a country with the world's largest number of young people. As the groundbreaking Right to Education law came into effect Thursday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made a rare address to the nation to express his government's commitment to ensuring education for all children. The prime minister, who came from a rural area and went on to do a doctorate in economics at Cambridge, recalled his own story to emphasize the importance of putting all children in school. (more...)
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