Right to Education in India

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>right to education </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>has been recognised as a human right in a number of international conventions including the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights which recognises a right to free compulsory primary education for all an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all with the progressive introduction of free secondary education as well as an obligation to develop equitable access to higher education ideally by the progressive introduction of free higher education. In 2021 171 states were parties to the Covenant. In 2019 an estimated 260 million children worldwide did not have access to school education and social inequality was a major cause. The Human Rights Measurement Initiative measures the right to education for countries around the world based on their level of income.</span></p>