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Report No.259 On "Early Childhood Development And Legal Entitlements" cites

Unni Krishnan, J.P. And Ors. Etc. Etc vs State Of Andhra Pradesh And Ors. Etc. Etc on 4 February, 1993

6.20 With respect to education, in view of the Supreme Court judgment in Unni Krishnan v. State of Andhra Pradesh and the aspiration behind Article 45 of the Indian Constitution, section 11 of the Right to Education Act should be made mandatory and should read as "with a view to prepare children above the age of three years for elementary education and to provide early childhood care and education for all children until they complete the age of six years, the appropriate Government shall make necessary arrangement for providing free pre-school education for such children"; further, keeping the Kerala RTE Rules as a model, all states should provide for pre-primary education and the provision should read as follows: "The state government and the local authority shall provide free and appropriate pre-school education based on a Pre-primary Education policy that shall be formulated by the state government, to all children above the age of three years till they complete six years so as to prepare them for elementary education. For this, Pre-school Centres shall be established in all government and aided schools in a phased manner within three years from the date of notification of the Rules. A unified child-friendly curriculum shall be developed by the academic authority for these centres, which shall have linkages with the Anganwadies for providing ICDS services to all the children. The minimum academic and professional qualification of pre-primary teachers shall be as prescribed by the National Council for Teacher Education."; all states must also ensure quality teaching at the pre-primary level by adopting Rule 8 of the Kerala RTE Rules.
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