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Teachers to march for quality education Friday

New Delhi: Over 10,000 teachers from 24 states in the country will march in the national capital Friday to raise awareness and seek support to pursue "quality education" for all, it was annonced Monday.The assembly

IANS IANS Updated on: September 15, 2014 18:18 IST
teachers to march for quality education friday
teachers to march for quality education friday

New Delhi: Over 10,000 teachers from 24 states in the country will march in the national capital Friday to raise awareness and seek support to pursue "quality education" for all, it was annonced Monday.

The assembly of educators is being organised to ensure that the United Nations (UN) keeps a sharp focus on education as it will set its post-2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Sep 24.

The march is to bring to the notice of the governments, non-governmental and international organisations, financial institutions, community leaders and the general public of the role of "quality education" in development of individual and society.

"In 2001, India launched the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) which advocates education for all and in 2009 came the Right to Education (RTE) Act... Much still remains and so the focus this time is on quality education," Kumar Ratan, national advocacy coordinator at National Coalition for Education (NCE), told IANS.

Organised by the Education International, an advocacy group, the march will begin from Mata Sundari College in central Delhi and go up to Jantar Mantar - the protest venue in the heart of Delhi.

"We want our voices to reach the UN so that quality education becomes the bedrock of any post-2015 development agenda," added Ratan.

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