Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 00:06
SC declined to interfere with Right to Education Act which provides for free and compulsory elementary education without holding back promotion of a child to next class till class 8.
Last Updated: Sunday, July 21, 2013, 20:14
Nagaland received over Rs 437 crore during the last five years from the Central government under compulsory free education.
Last Updated: Monday, July 30, 2012, 22:52
The Calcutta High Court on Monday stayed a notification on application of Right to Free and Compulsory Education Rules 2012, put forward by the West Bengal government.
Last Updated: Thursday, March 8, 2012, 19:25
Returning to power for a record second successive tenure, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday announced free education for all girl students up to MA.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 19, 2012, 16:09
The move makes Tibet the first place in China to offer 15 years of free education.
Last Updated: Sunday, January 15, 2012, 20:45
An NGO has written to Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit drawing her attention to orphaned children allegedly being denied benefit of free education.
Last Updated: Monday, January 9, 2012, 21:41
Israeli children, aged above three, will now get free education after the govt approved an amendment in an existing law.
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 12:36
A 62-year-old man has been teaching children in a village in Odisha`s Kendrapara district for the last 40 years for free, making him the toast of the villagers.
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 28, 2011, 16:00
The Bombay High Court has asked the Maharashtra government to open schools in rural areas to provide free primary education to the children of migrant labourers who work in sugarcane fields.
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 21, 2011, 21:27
Punjab is all set to launch an ambitious scheme from July 1 to empower girls by providing them free education up to class 12.
Last Updated: Monday, September 6, 2010, 14:06
The SC refers to five-judge bench petitions challenging law of free and compulsory education.
Last Updated: Monday, April 19, 2010, 21:36
LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan on Monday demanded that the government should provide free and compulsory education to scheduled caste and scheduled tribe students upto post-graduate level.
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