E-9 talks funds for play schools

In fact, in the late ’90s when the 86th Amendment Act guaranteeing free and compulsory education for children between six and 14 was still being drafted, there was talk of including creche education. But the government developed a cold feet realising the huge cost involved in building this infrastructure at the grassroots level.

In Cairo, Joshi spoke against the manner in which the E-9 countries were being ignored and were not being invited to the high level group meetings of UNESCO. He pointed out that while smaller nations were receiving funds from developed countries, the international planners don’t realise that global education would never be achieved if the problems of the most populous countries were not addressed.

He regretted that few E-9 countries would receive funds ahead of the others.