Isn't that what the AIMPLB is opposing to leave out the minority institutions and Madrasahs from the RTE so that they can control the curriculum and the funds(even the funds provided by the HR's ministry's Quality of Education Scheme?) and on the other side, deny the poor kids education?
On a separate note, how many Madrasahs meet the standards of even a government school? There might few of them but can you quality the statement that Madrasahs in general provide quality education?
Having stated that, the core issue here is whether Muslims should be provided special privilege being a minority to control their own laws which goes against the tenet of a secular state where certain population is left to be controlled by their religious leaders.
Let the AIMPLB say and do what they want. They have just as much legitimacy as Anna Hazare's brat pack, and just as legitimate a claim to speaking for their constituency. Only a government thoroughly bankrupt of principle would succumb to their blackmail. They are not relevant to the situation any more than you are, or I am, so why are you quoting them as some kind of authority?
For your next question, who said that Madrasahs in general provide quality education? I am sorry to be harsh to a person I have always found to be well-intentioned and imbued with conscientiousness, but are you incapable of reading a simple statement and getting its sense? In fact, how is it that you read my opinion about madrasahs being the last refuge of a government that could not afford its own schools, and fell back on the madrasah? Did that sound to you like a recommendation of a madrasah?
Your last question has nothing to do with the first two. Those first two,relating to madrasahs, related to article 20 of the constitution. Before going further, please read and understand that damn' article, and please do a better job than you made of reading and understanding my sentences.
You should know, to finish the discussion on article 30, that
Bhairava was so unwise to bring up for examination, that this article addresses not ONE but TWO of the fundamental rights in our constitution. You should also recall that the supreme court has guarded the people of India against demagogues and dictators to the extent that an unarmed judiciary with only morality at its command can do, by laying down as a feature of the interpretation of the constitution which is within their purview that THE BASIC STRUCTURE OF THE CONSTITUTION MAY NOT BE CHANGED. No bigot can fiddle with these fundamental rights, come what may.
Article 30 forbids mala fide interference by government with minority educational institutions; mala fide interference only, not healthy, normal supervision. But read for yourself:
As India is a country of many languages, religions, and cultures, the Constitution provides special measures, in Articles 29 and 30, to protect the rights of the minorities. Any community which has a language and a script of its own has the right to conserve and develop it. No citizen can be discriminated against for admission in State or State aided institutions.[36]
All minorities, religious or linguistic, can set up their own educational institutions to preserve and develop their own culture. In granting aid to institutions, the State cannot discriminate against any institution on the basis of the fact that it is administered by a minority institution.[37] But the right to administer does not mean that the State can not interfere in case of maladministration. In a precedent-setting judgment in 1980, the Supreme Court held that the State can certainly take regulatory measures to promote the efficiency and excellence of educational standards. It can also issue guidelines for ensuring the security of the services of the teachers or other employees of the institution. In another landmark judgement delivered on 31 October 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that in case of aided minority institutions offering professional courses, admission could only be through a common entrance test conducted by State or a university. Even an unaided minority institution ought not to ignore the merit of the students for admission.
Do you find anything dreadfully unreasonable in this? Do you find another Pakistan growing within these institutions, or another Vatican?
Most of the fog created by the Hindutva-vadi is in order to hide their own unsound thinking, based on incomplete information and knowledge, and to confuse other unwary observers or neutral by-standers.
Now consider your third, and last question. Do you really want to ask it any more?
