After enactment of the landmark RTE,HRD Minister Kapil Sibal today voiced hope that education till higher-secondary level too will become a fundamental right. He said that while under Right To Education,education for children between ages of six and 14 has become a fundamental right,a similar move for the secondary and higher secondary education was needed. "I hope it will happen someday," he said at a UNICEF function here. He said issues coming in the way of smooth implementation of the Right to Education Act would be sorted out in the next two to three years. These include addressing shortage of teachers and providing basic requirement for schools. Sibal,who has pledged his support for UNICEF's Awaaz Do campaign to spread awareness on RTE,released a map at a primary school here which represents the geographical spread of the campaign in the country and the people who support it. The campaign represents the collective voice of more than two lakh people speaking up for the eight million children in the country currently out-of-school. The campaign was launched three months ago to raise awareness about RTE. Sibal said the number of out-of-school children in the country was more than the population of some of the countries. "The need of the hour is to join forces and work to get these children to school". The Republic Day tableaux of the HRD Ministry would also be based on the RTE theme.
