Parents and teachers; not bureaucrats, politicians, and judges should decide what is best for our children.

Budget private schools are delivering high quality education to millions of children from the large middle and lower middle class in India, who would otherwise have to go to barely functional government schools. Budget private schools are the silent horses of our education system delivering quality schooling.

We have fared well in bringing children to the school while failing big time at bringing them to colleges for higher education at affordable rates.

The Central government enacted the Right to Education Act (RTE) 2009, which aims to provide free and compulsory education to all the children between the age of 6 and 14 years. The act also obliges all private schools to reserve 25 percent seats for underprivileged children. However, the many loopholes in the law failed to achieve its intended objectives.

The Right to Information Act (RTI) was enacted in 2005 with the aim to bring transparency and accountability in governance. Under the Act, people can ...