Right to Education: Comparative Study of Constitutional Contours, Legislative Initiatives and Institutional Arrangements in India and Pakistan

Abstract

Present work aims at exploring the legislative and institutional infrastructure for ensuring the prompt assurance of the right to education on both sides of the border. In India, the right to education has been brought from the directives of policy-Article 45- to the inventory of fundamental rights-Article 21A and in Pakistan; the insertion of Article 25A has given the right to education new dimensions. So, the paper dogmatically analyses the issue as to what extent, extant arrangement are in league with provisions contained in the constitutions, conventions and declarations adopted by both of the countries.