Liability regime for children

The promise of “acchhe din” may or may not have come true for the adult citizens of India but as far as our children, particularly adolescents between 14 and 18 are concerned, these two years have been disappointing. From UPA’s rights and entitlement regime, which gave them the right to education and right to food, we now have a dispensation which probably believes in imposing liability and does not favourably look at rights and freedom.  It seems the government wants to promote the theory that the only right citizens have is the right to do their duty.

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