ABSTRACT

Education has been recognized through varying degrees of conviction, as a vital element for individual development and for self-fulfillment of the society. It is considered as an important instrument of social mobility, equality and empowerment both at individual and collective level. Through proper education citizens will come to know about all the values like self determination, justices, dignity of life, public welfare, living together with harmony and in this way they will learn to adjust themselves adequately in the society. Proper education will make them more aware about their rights and duties and will help in guiding individual incase any of his rights is being violated. Human right is one of the most basic and fundamental right without which one cannot survive in the society. Human rights are common to all human beings, whatever nation, religion, race, status he belongs to. Every person is equally entitled to human right without any discrimination. Destruction and suffering has led mankind to think that the human rights awareness is necessary. The first step in this regard has been taken by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10,1948, by adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights set standard of human rights for all the human beings. Education plays an important role in putting human rights into practice by proper understanding of rights granted in the Indian constitution, like Article14, Article15, Article16, Article19, Article 23, Article 25, Article28, Article30, Article41, Article 45 and Article 46. The present paper briefly talks about The Right to Education Act 2009 and how the education helps in putting the human rights in to practice.