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Now India’s children have a right to receive at least eight years of education, the growing question is whether it will remain on paper or become a reality. One hardly needs a reminder of that this right is different from the others enshrined in the Constitution, that the beneficiary a six-year-old child cannot demand it, nor can she or he fight a legal battle when the right is denied or violated. In all cases, it the adult society which must act on behalf of a child’s right to education is denied no compensation offered later can be adequate or relevant. This may be of little use to the boy or girl because the opportunity missed at school during childhood cannot serve the same purpose later in life. This may be painfully true for girls because our society in India’s history when the ghastly practice of female infanticide has resurfaced in the form of foeticide. This is ‘symptomatic of a deeper turmoil’ in the society which is compounding the traditional obstacles to the education of girls. Tenacious prejudice against the intellectual potential of girls across runs across our cultural diversity and system of education has not been able to address it.