Tag: Right to Internet
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“Phones for Good” Campaign
What can you do? You can now donate your old phones to facilitate the access to hybrid education of underprivileged children in Delhi. Why this campaign? Since the pandemic in 2020, digital education was introduced for all schools as the only viable means to ensure access to education. Later last year, even when schools reopened,…
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The Anuradha Bhasin Judgment and the Conditional Status of the Right to the Internet
The preamble to the Indian Constitution provides for the liberty of thought and expression to each and every citizen of the country. This solemn resolve is envisaged in Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution which provides for freedom of speech and expression to its citizens. This freedom is restricted by Article 19(2) which provides for reasonable…
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Measures to address the impact of COVID on access to education in Government Primary Schools of Delhi
The UNDP report COVID and Human Development: Assessing the Crisis, Envisioning the Recovery states that the pandemic has emerged as a “human development crisis” with indicators of certain dimensions expected to sink as low as mid-1980 levels. Education is one such dimension. With schools being closed and large proportions of the population without internet access,…
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Right to Internet vis à vis Right to Primary Education in the NCT of Delhi
Information about the issue: In the last few months, COVID-19 has surfaced as an unprecedented challenge for the issue of access to quality education, especially for primary school students in government schools. For most of the students in government primary schools belonging to the disadvantaged communities, absence of computers, smartphones or any reliable broadband service…