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8 Indian J.L. & Just. 188 (2017)
Education and Public Health - Legislative Initiatives in Fifty Years of the Republic (1950-2000)

handle is hein.journals/ijlj8 and id is 412 raw text is: BOOK REVIEW N.R. Madhava Menon, Education and Public Health- Legislative Initiatives in Fifty Years of the Republic (1950-2000), forwarded by Subhash C. Kashyap, Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, India, 2013 Edition, ISBN: 978-93-5035-337-6, Price- Rs. 325. N.R. Madhava Menon is an Indian legal educator, considered by many as the father of modern legal education in India. Prof. Menon foreword his latest treatise on Education and Public Health - Legislative Initiatives in the First Fifty Years of the Republic. His present work is the result of his intensive research in the depths of the primary sources like the Constituent Assembly Debates, Proceedings of the Houses of Parliament, Judicial pronouncements by Courts and much else from the vast field of secondary sources. Several reports of Committees of Experts and independent perused and covered. Prof. Menon gave priority to public health and primary education by making it part of State Policy, fundamental in making laws and in governance of the country. In fact, primary education was supposed to be compulsorily given to every child within ten years of commencement of the Constitution! For a variety of reasons, the attention given by Parliament and State legislatures to basic needs of people in the initial years of the Republic has not been adequate to the tasks involved. Today, however, they are issues in the priority list of governments both at the Centre and in the States. Education has become part of guaranteed fundamental right under the Constitution and Parliament has legislated the Right to Education Act to implement the guaranteed right. Health is in the process of becoming a fundamental right as well. This Study looks at the initiatives in Parliament between 1950 and 2000 to act upon the Directive Principles relating to education and health. On the main theme of the study, Prof. Menon aptly puts the focus on the close relationship between economic and political democracy and socio- economic justice propounded under the Directives Principles and good citizen-friendly governance norms based on the fundamental human rights principles of equality, non-discrimination and inclusiveness. The present book covers all the important aspects of education and public health and freedoms. The author has made a wide study regarding implementation of basic rights. The whole work divided into VI Chapters. The Chapter 1 is Introduction. It introduces the subject. Here discussion has been made regarding the development of education and

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