Check this again 19 February 2016.
The Allahabad High Court has ordered all government servants to send their children to government schools. Apparently Justice Sudhir Agarwal believes that this is the only way to improve the schools.
An informative blog on the legal world outlines the essential points of the case and ruling, and also provides the entire judgement.
This legal point of view thinks that the judgement is overreach, as the petitioners were complaining about the way appointments are made (“did not give any weight to the scores of the Teachers Eligibility Test in preparation of merit list”) and “…nowhere in the case have the petitioners prayed for improving the conditions of the government schools.”
This legal viewpoint in the Deccan Chronicle, while accepting that the “the court’s concern is indeed justified” points to legal problems that include the infringement of a child’s right to study in a school of her choice the justice of penalizing government servants for the incapacity of the government to provide education (the reason for the Right to Education Act), and asserts it is not part of the HC’s mandate to suggest solutions to societal problems.
An article in Scroll.in suggests that, while the judgement wants to change the rotten system, “Even if its fails in this, it will have forcefully drawn attention to a major cause of the criminal negligence of school education for the majority of India’s children.