This report analyses the lack of accountability of the state machinery, in the light of its constitutional and hence legal responsibilities, towards its commitment for providing equal educational rights to its minorities. Emphasizing the negative impact of the existing institutional setup and discriminatory constitutional changes which have resulted in alarming levels of passivity of the minority communities in making decisions concerning their education, this paper seeks to analyze and present a strategy whereby all decisions pertaining to the education of minorities are made on a rights based approach to development. This SAARC Strategy Paper seeks to place minorities in the driving seat as active citizens with expectations, rights and responsibilities. It seeks the formulation of educational policies for the minorities by virtue of which they will be actively involved in visualizing their future besides becoming successfully empowered to seek their rights from the state wherever the slightest sign of discrimination is pinpointed. The priority is a linking of the educational rights of the minorities to national and international policy. As such the educational policies must strictly adhere to the lofty principles of free will and justice and the government should safeguard all such ethics. The government will thus be accountable for discrimination against minorities in all spheres of life ranging from the legislative and the educational to any and every matter.
Researcher: Ahmad Salim, Nosheen Dsouza, Leonard Dsouza
Published by: South Asian Research and Resource Centre
Funded by: IDRC, Canada
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