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The New Delhi School System

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While there are many acts of human right violations in the world, a long standing one that has gone on is in New Delhi, India where they have struggled with the right to education in their public schools. On April 1, 2010 the act for the right of children to free and compulsory education was passed in New Delhi, India. The law promised free and compulsory education to all children between the age groups of six and fourteen years old. A study on the implementation of the Right to Education Act in Delhi three years of its existence, has shown overwhelming violations. Although the act was passed, there have been 10,000 accounts of violations of child’s rights recorded. The New Delhi school system 's use of discrimination against refugees and …show more content…

Remnants of the glorious past survive as important monuments in different parts of the city”(Pollanki). Although Delhi has prospered as the capital of modern India, its population is spiralling upwards due to rapid economic expansion and increased job opportunities. The downside of this inflation, is chronic overcrowding, traffic congestion, child labour, housing shortages, pollution, and unfortunately unfair educational opportunities to local children. Although New Delhi is a fast growing city, some of their political opinions are outdated, like their lack of commitment to the human right to education. Many schools around New Delhi have denied students access to their schools. A majority of the victims in this case are children who belong to economically weaker , or refugee families in New Delhi, and cannot provide correct papers to enter the school, some have even been denied access for lack of hygiene. One child was denied entrance to school on complaint of his poor hygiene and was asked to take his admission somewhere else (iGovernment). When many of these families cannot even afford food on their table for their children, lack of hygiene should not be a reason to deny a child their right to an education. This incident isn’t the only case in which a student was turned away from school, surveys taken around the local New Delhi schools reported, “twenty three per cent of children stated that they have differently-abled (disabled) children in their schools; main

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