Supreme court upheld the constitutional validity of Right to Education Act

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the various provisions of the Right to Education Act, 2009.The apex court ruled that the RTE Act would apply to all categories of public and private schools except unaided minority schools.
The SC judgement makes it clear that all schools will have to keep aside 25% of seats for poor children.

The SC said the judgement would come into effect from Thursday.The Supreme Court Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of the Right to Education (RTE) that mandates unaided private schools to earmark 25 percent seats for students from economically and socially weaker sections of society.