I don't see how giving blanket exemption to a completely secular industry (education in this case) under the pretext of religion has anything to do with majoritarian excesses. Why not do it in Taxi business or Restaurants or why not let a Muslim get away with 1 murder per year or something like that ?
Unless you are ignoring a distinction no one should be given a right that grossly violates rights of someone else.
I would have agreed with you if the exemption was limited to religious education meant for that community only.
Under the current law Hindu schools can not operate and compete with Church run schools and I find that vile and against basic sense of justice.
Sachar committee is a heap of garbage for many reasons. But even if we accept it only Muslism community among minorities seem to suck not Christian or Parasis or Jains or Sikhs. That despite being the most politically influential community in India.
(This trend is seen in USA too where politically influential Irish Americans score worse than least influential Japanese Americans on socio economic indicators).
RTE's draconian provisions and how they hurt both Hindu community and schools is well documented. Over 15K schools are in danger of losing their legal status because of this law.
Also I am completely unaware how it can be justfied that a Hindu can not preside over NMEC which happens to be a government's administrative body!
There's no official data to say over 100,000 schools have been shut down. You linked to some blog which just reported some figures which some "Civil society coalition" fed to them. Without any reference. Please cite an official or reputed sources if you have.
The "National Independent School Association", NISA, have been lobbying unsuccessfully against RTE for years. That's just because most private schools don't want to reserve 25% seats for backward/schedule caste. It's as simple as that. Someone should tell them it is 2015!
You can't expect minority institutions to adhere to this quota for backward hindus, since minorities such as muslims are socially, economically, and educationally backward themselves.
Also, it's not that a NCMEI chairperson can not be a hindu, but that he should be a minority himself. It makes total sense to me since it's the "National Minority Education Commission".
I'll again rephrase.
RTE needs to be applied to private schools so backward/schedule caste have access to education just like you and me. It does it by reservations and regulations.
It doesn't apply to minority institutions because bulk of minorities are backward/scheduled themselves. So they can't be expected to have reservations for backward/scheduled from mainstream.
I can't see how anyone can consider this to be vile from a neutral standpoint. In fact to me it just illustrates some of the most peculiar strengths of the Indian system.
Unless you are ignoring a distinction no one should be given a right that grossly violates rights of someone else.
I would have agreed with you if the exemption was limited to religious education meant for that community only.
Under the current law Hindu schools can not operate and compete with Church run schools and I find that vile and against basic sense of justice.
Sachar committee is a heap of garbage for many reasons. But even if we accept it only Muslism community among minorities seem to suck not Christian or Parasis or Jains or Sikhs. That despite being the most politically influential community in India.
(This trend is seen in USA too where politically influential Irish Americans score worse than least influential Japanese Americans on socio economic indicators).
RTE's draconian provisions and how they hurt both Hindu community and schools is well documented. Over 15K schools are in danger of losing their legal status because of this law.
Also I am completely unaware how it can be justfied that a Hindu can not preside over NMEC which happens to be a government's administrative body!
Check this: [1] Over 1 lakh schools shut down because of RTE http://www.governancenow.com/news/regular-story/rte-5-years-...
[2] Church runs schools banning pagan practices in their schools. https://realitycheck.wordpress.com/2015/10/24/analyzing-indi...
[3] Statewise numbers of schools shut down because of RTE http://nisaindia.org/data-on-school-closures
[4] Constitutionality of NCMEI challenged https://realitycheck.wordpress.com/2015/05/09/is-the-congres...