01154nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100005200041245007900093260003200172300003300204520077500237773003201012260427b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aHegade, Sandeep and Andalgavkarkulkarni, Yogini  aInclusion-exempt schools : How policy enables elite educational insulation  aEconomic & Political Weekly  a61(7), Feb 14, 2026: p.19-22  aIndia’s Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 proclaims universal inclusion, yet elite private schools remain structurally exempt through regulatory autonomy, fee discretion, and selective enforcement. Operating via interlocking mechanisms of fee-gating, board-gating, and spatial-gating, these institutions consolidate caste–class homogeneity while evading equity mandates. This article contends that such policy-induced bifurcation undermines constitutional equality and fragments democratic citizenship. Genuine equality of opportunity demands system-wide inclusion that deliberately encompasses the very institutions shaping privileged trajectories.-Reproduced 


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