A child's right to education does not encompass the right to select a particular school for it, the Delhi High Court has held.
A Bench of Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia said the Right to Education (RTE) Act was a beneficial legislation, enacted to achieve the objectives of social inclusion and ensuring that schools become a common space which was not differentiated by barriers of caste, ethnic group or caste lines.
"However, such a right to education cannot be translated into right to select a particular school," the Court ruled on March 25.
The Court's verdict came on a mother's appeal seeking to admit her ward in Class 2 under the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) category in a private school for the academic session 2024-2025.
The appellant had earlier approached a single-judge Bench of the High Court for admission of her ward under the EWS category in Class 1 of the private school for the 2023-2024 academic session.
