Fwd: This is how the RTE Bill was passed with 20% members voting

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This is how the RTE Bill was passed with 25% members voting in Rajya Sabha. So serious are our elders on an issue confronting the building up of a Nation. Pl. read the following Report. 

---------- Forwarded message ----------anil sadgopal <anilsadgopal

Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 2:48 AMRe: Online Petition on Right to Education Bill

Friends,

 

Here are weblinks to two reports from The Telegraph (23 July and 24 July) on the so-called Right to Education Bill passed by 54 Rajya Sabha members (out of 250 members) earlier this week through just a voice vote and with hardly any debate.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090724/jsp/frontpage/story_11276066.jsp

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090723/jsp/nation/story_11271898.jsp

Here is the weblink to a Hindi report from Business Bhaskar drawing attention to some other lacunae in the Bill.

 

http://bhaskar.com/business/article.php?id=18860

 

 

There are still many more. Please read the Bill carefully and deconstruct it yourself to reveal its pro-capital and pro-market character. Yet, the Rajya Sabha records show that these were almost overlooked.

 

During this week three public protests were held against this farcical Bill viz. (a) dharna in Hyderabad by the Andhra Pradesh Save Education Committee (APSEC) on 20th July; (b) demonstration followed by burning of Mr. Kapil Sibal’s effigy at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi by the All India Students Association (AISA) on 22nd July, engaging students from three universities i.e. Jamia Millia Islamia, JNU and Delhi University; and © Bal Hakk Abhiyan rally (about 700 women from surrounding villages) in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, on 23rd July followed by presentation of a memorandum to the Collector addressed to the President and the Prime Minister.

 

In the previous week, a state-level Convention was held in Uttarakhand (Dehra Dun, 18-19 July) attended by representatives of people’s movements, student & teacher organizations and village-level women groups drawn from all the 13 districts of the state. The Convention endorsed the Resolution earlier passed by the All India Forum for Right to Education (AIF-RTE) at its Hyderabad meeting (21-22 June) seeking replacement of the Bill in the Parliament by a fresh Bill drafted in the framework of the Common School System (CSS) based on Neighbourhood Schools. Further, the Uttarakhand Convention asked the Union Government not to rush the Bill through the Parliament and instead send it to the Parliamentary Standing Committee for holding Public Hearings at District Headquarters and then modify the Bill in light of the feedback. This consensus

was reached at the Convention when it became known that not a single public hearing has been held since this Bill’s first draft was prepared in June 2005 by the Kapil Sibal Committee under the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE). The Parliamentary Standing Committee also made a mockery of the democratic tradition by consulting only the Ministry’s bureaucrats (and educrats) in closed rooms and refused to even accept a Memorandum from a public body, let alone talk to it.

 

On 2nd July, there was a two-hour long demonstration against the Bill outside the busy Churchgate station in Mumbai.

 

During the weeks preceding this, following the placement of the Bill in the Rajya Sabha in December 2008, there have been a series of meetings and protests in various parts of the country and an ongoing signature campaign appealing to the government to replace the Bill with a new Bill as proposed above but to no avail.  This included a public meeting in Bhopal by Shiksha Adhikar Manch on 14th February 2009 followed by a rally and burning of the copies of the Bill in the centre of a crowded market. The Resolution passed at the meeting was sent to the President, Prime Minister and to several others in the government.

 

Please read these reports and act before it is too late. The Bill is likely to be taken up in the Lok Sabha during the next week.

 

A brief online petition is already available on  the following weblink and awaiting your powerful signatures:

 

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/shaheen/petition.html  

 

ZINDABAAD!

 

Sincerely,

 

 

Anil Sadgopal--- On Fri, 24/7/09, Shaheen Ansari <ansarishaheen wrote:

Shaheen Ansari <ansarishaheenOnline Petition on Right to Education Bill

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Friday, 24 July, 2009, 4:59 PM

 

Dear  Friends,

 

As you all are aware the long awaited Right to Education (RTE) Bill was passed in the Rajya Sabha on 20th July 2009.

 

An analysis of the bill, however, shows that instead of fulfilling the promise of providing  access to quality education  for  all, it will actually create  a lot of hurdles , especially for the marginalised.  

 

Morevover, the Common School System, recommended by Kothari Commission, should be included in the bill, if it is to bridge the gap between different sections of society.  

 

If you believe that Every Child Should Have Access To Quality Education, then please sign this petition and forward it to as many people as you can.

 

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/shaheen/petition.html  

 

In solidarity Shaheen

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:40 PM, ramesh patnaik <drameshptk wrote:

 

dear madam/sir

here below is given the email id of madam speaker

please send memorandum to her by email immediately

collect signatures of prominent people in your place on memorandum print out and send it by speed post

 

speaker email id: speakerloksabha

-- Dr. Shaheen AnsariArkitect IndiaC - 336 - ACD / 2 Z, Budha Vihar,(Opp. JNU Gate)Munirka,New Delhi- 110067Ph: 09312838170, 09555113954http://educationatdoorsteps.blogspot..com

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