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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