Nisha PurohitContributing Author, Rightantra Usually, I don’t start my day with the newspaper but, one Sunday morning, the headline of the newspaper caught my eye. It read, “500 illegal Child Welfare Institutions have been shut down by the Ministry of Women & Child Development (“WCD”)” and another headline read, “Offences committed by Juveniles will be bifurcated as heinous, serious and petty”. I wondered, if a ‘Juvenile’ is defined as a ‘Child in Conflict with Law below 18 years of age’, how is it possible to treat a 16-year-old as an adult?
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Anushka Mehta Co-Founder, Rightantra The National Education Policy, 2020 was a much hailed reform, being the first education policy for Indian students in the 21st century. It brought forward many needed improvements, the most important being the introduction of the “5+3+3+4” design corresponding to the age groups 3-8 years (foundational stage), 8-11 (preparatory), 11-14 (middle), and 14-18 (secondary), which brings pre-schooling into the fold of formal education by replacing “10+2”. Another integral aspect of the NEP was the boost to vocational education, which has been elucidated upon in Rightantra’s previous articles here and here.
Now it has been a year since the initiation of the NEP, and the Ministry of Education has come out with new initiatives to realise the objectives of the NEP and bring Indian education at par with global standards. Tvisha VarmaContributing Author, Rightantra The moment you have your phone in your hand, you keep going back to Instagram and admire (maybe even feel a little jealous) of some living “living the life”.
If this describes you, read this article. Nisha PurohitContributing Author, Rightantra A crucial question of law emerges concerning the definition of “Rape” as contained under Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (“IPC”), as evidenced by the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013 (“Act of 2013”), that whether the term “Rape” as defined in the amended section 375 includes sexual assaults beyond penile penetration into vagina, urethra, anus, and mouth; the known orifices in the human body to which such penetration as imaginably possible.
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