Abstract:
ABSTRACT
Education does not mean only bookish knowledge but much more than that. Basically education
is overall development of human being. The present paper is broadly an attempt to trace two
aspects of education in India firstly to trace the development of education in India from the
period of Vedas to the status of education in the present scenario. The second part is after finding
86th the present scenario and recent development of the education i.e. amendment of the
constitution which makes right to education a fundamental right and the new Act the right of
children to free and compulsory education Act, 2009. Then task is to critically analyze the act
and find out the loopholes of the act. The Journey of education to become from an ordinary right
to a fundamental right and then coming of new right to education act was not so easy. The paper
is focusing on the step by step development of education in India along with the judicial
decisions.
