-PTI
The Delhi high court on Wednesday asked the central government to respond to a plea for amendment to the Right To Education (RTE) Act to make it recognize homebased studies and alternate schooling too as education, besides the one acquired through formal schooling.
A division bench of Acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw asked the central government’s standing counsel Jatan Singh to file the response by April 18. In a plea made through counsel Somnath Bharti, petitioner Shreya Sahai said Section 18 of RTE Act does not recognize any other mode of imparting education except the one through formal schooling.