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Based on the report and recommendations of the Kothari Commission (1964–1966), the government headed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi announced the first National Policy on Education in 1968, which called for a "radical restructuring" and proposed equal educational opportunities in order to achieve national integration and greater cultural and economic development. [3]
The bill was approved by the cabinet on 2 July 2009. [9] The Rajya Sabha passed the bill on 20 July 2009 [10] and the Lok Sabha on 4 August 2009. [11] It received Presidential assent and was notified as law on 26 August 2009 [12] as The Children's Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act. [13]
They can only be a created or changed by passing a constitutional amendment bill, rather than an Act of Parliament. The members of Constituent Assembly of India recognised the need for independent institutions which can regulate sectors of national importance without any executive interference. As such, they introduced constitutional provisions ...
For example, prior to independence of India, there were not clear laws and protections for the disabled. [192] Since independence, advancements have been made for rights of the disabled, but this has not fully tackled the issue. [192] Pre-independence there were only 24 schools for the deaf in India, and all of these used an oral approach. [192]
Legal Tender (Inscribed Notes) Act: 1964: 28 Food Corporation of India Act: 1964: 37 Warehousing Corporations (Supplementary) Act: 1965: 20 Payment of Bonus Act: 1965: 21 Goa, Daman and Diu (Extension of the Code of Civil Procedure and the Arbitration Act) Act: 1965: 30 Railways Employment of Members of the Armed Forces Act: 1965: 40 Cardamom ...
Congress won sweeping victories, with Nehru reinstated as prime minister, and he began a comprehensive effort to devise a Bill that could be passed. [24] Nehru split the Code Bill into four separate bills, including the Hindu Marriage Act, the Hindu Succession Act, the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, and the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance ...
The objective of the scheme is to bring a cultural and behavioural change in the general public to ‘Ask for a Bill’ as their right and entitlement. [5] [better source needed] The tax rates, rules and regulations are governed by the GST Council which consists of the finance ministers of the central government and all the states. The GST is ...
Although the 40 year time-frame was derided at the time by leaders of the Indian independence movement as being too long a period to achieve universal literacy, [4] average literacy levels in post-independence India had only reached about 65% in 2008 (64 years after the scheme would have been launched) and were increasing only "sluggishly" at 1 ...