Right to Education does not include right to choose school: Delhi High Court

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.