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The RTE Act will be reviewed by the BCI and a decision will be taken within a reasonable time, he told the Supreme Court (File photo/News18)
The petition, filed in the form of a PIL, was rejected by a division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad, who also asked the BCI to look into the matter and take appropriate action.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday rejected a plea to the Bar Council of India (BCI) to make the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (RTE Act) a compulsory subject in all law schools.
The petition, filed in the form of a PIL, was rejected by a division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad, who also asked the BCI to look into the matter and take appropriate action.
The RTE Act will be reviewed by the BCI and a decision will be taken within a fair time, he told the Supreme Court.
The Bar Council of India has not considered making the RTE Act, 2009 a compulsory subject in Legal Education Centres, according to a PIL filed by a social law NGO through advocates Ashok Aggarwal and Kumar Utkarsh.
BCI counsel said during the hearing that this subject is heavily taught in law schools. It was said that the questions of the exam on constitutional law were taken from Article 21 A of the Constitution.
Considering the pleadings, the court said that the prayer made in the petition appears to be genuine.
“The application will be properly reviewed without dwelling on the essence of the problem,” the report said.
“The justice of the right to education places a great responsibility on lawyers, because only lawyers can bring legal violations to court. In the context of the child, it places an additional responsibility on the legal education system to ensure that lawyers are familiar with the details of how to enforce this right…,” the petition reads.
“It is argued that the current lack of action on the violation of the right to education may be to blame for the fact that law students and lawyers are not taught anything about the right to education. In fact, most of them are not aware of the basic rights enshrined in the RTE Act, 2009,” the petition added.
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