Social Jurist Offer of Technical Resource Support

To Empower NGOs, Lawyers and Communities in
USING THE LAW FOR PROTECTION OF THE RIGHT OF THE CHILD TO EDUCATION

After the notification of the Central Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, many non-government organisations, communities, lawyers, Law colleges, Departments of Education of Colleges, Universities etc want to know more about the use of courts for the justiciable right to education.

Social Jurist is a not-for-profit-organisation, which for the past 15 years has been engaged in providing free legal support to children, whose rights to and in education have been compromised.

Social Jurist would like to share its knowledge and experience with others in order to empower them to use the law for the protection of the right of the child to education. To this end, it offers to make its members and associated persons available free of charge, as resource persons for training / orientation programmes organized with objectives such as:

→ To introduce participants to the concept of supporting the right to education through the courts
→ To sensitize them to the role of lawyers (their potential and constraints) in RTE
→ To prepare them to work within the legal framework for the right to education

Typically, such programmes could be of two days duration, preferably on Weekends, or for longer duration on other days when courts are not in session. Alternate Formats with inputs devoted to understanding the RTE Act, and concerns and issues related to the RTE could also be envisaged.

NGOs, communities, lawyers, Law colleges, Departments of Education of Colleges, Universities etc who wish to seek such resource support to their programmes may contact:

socialjurist@bol.net.in; or 09811101923 (Ashok Agarwal)