Legally obsessed

The wisest comment on Indian governance that I have heard in a very, very long time came from a member of the faculty of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Speaking about our useless Right to Education law, this is what Lant Pritchett told this newspaper. “The RTE is one of the most massively ill-conceived things that happened. At a time when India should have been thinking about the evidence on the table of learning problems, you have just enshrined an additional legislation, an input-led approach and focus to schooling that we know will fail.”

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