For better future children’s basic right to health and education can’t be compromised and as such consciousness of people within and outside the Government on children’s accessibility to health and education at the grass roots matters the most. Unfortunately the society itself is not as much concerned over the children’s access to health and education as it should have been and consequently gapes in the accessibility of children to basic facilities are growing. Whether it comes to admissions in schools by choice or treatment at the preferred health centres the children of only affluent people get access to both quality education and as well as quality healthcare facilities. While the fact remains that children of low income groups because of the low paying capacity of their parents neither get admissions in schools by choice nor find themselves getting accesses to preferred health facilities, neither the society itself is conscious about it’s duties not the Government discharges it’s responsibilities in sensitive matters like education and health of children . Unfortunately paying capacity has virtually become the basic parameter for accessibility of children to basic rights-health and education. Though legal and administrative guidelines have been put in place for accessibility of children to basic health and education facilities irrespective of their position and status in the society but the system not working according to the legal administrative guidelines deprives children of the low income groups of the right to quality education and healthcare facilities. Though laws have been amended from time to time but practices and procedures in the delivery of education and healthcare facilities have not changed even under popular governments of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state. Paying capacity of the people becoming the sole criteria for the children to have accessibility to basic education and child health facilities shows that disparity even in the basic rights of children is allowed to breed ground for the last several decades in Jammu & Kashmir.
Regulation of admission processes in schools particularly private schools for the purposes of giving children the right to education by choices and working of child health facilities in rural hospital for furthering the causes of rights of children to basic health facilities could obviously remove the growing disparity in basic rights of children to education and health in Jammu & Kashmir.
Since disparity in rights of the children amounts to discrimination among children in their accessibility to basic rights of education and health care facilities, the concerns of the people deserve an immediate attention and intervention of the government for the purposes of equal rights to children irrespective of the position and status of their parents in matters of education and healthcare facilities. Amid increasing stress of disparity in admissions to pre nursery classes in schools and availability of basic child health facilities in rural hospitals it is imperative for the Government to review the process of admissions in both private and Government schools and also review the working of the child health facilities in rural hospitals. Regulation of admission processes in schools particularly private schools for the purposes of giving children the right to education by choices and working of child health facilities in rural hospital for furthering the causes of rights of children to basic health facilities could obviously remove the growing disparity in basic rights of children to education and health in Jammu & Kashmir.
