Girls in Sainik Schools and Rashtriya Military Schools

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Offering girls basic quality education is one sure way of giving them much greater power of enabling them to make genuine choices over the kinds of lives they wish to lead. India has ratified the </span>convention on the 'Rights of the Child<span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>' and the convention on the 'Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women'. According to Article 21 A of the Constitution of India right to education is now a fundamental right for the children in the age group of 6-14 years.</span></p><p>The deprivation of quality education by denial of admission to girls in schools on the basis of gender is against Constitutional guarantees of Article 14 15 and 21 A and hence discriminatory.</p><p><br></p>