This indicator examines if the State has sufficient number of public schools, including ECCE centres, to accommodate the needs of children in both rural and urban areas having access to public education.
Human Rights Standards:
Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 28; International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Article 13.2, General Comment No. 13 (para. 6.a); Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discriminations against Women, Article 10.a, General Comment No. 36 (para. 29).
Levels and Types of Education:
Types of Indicator:
Levels of disaggregation:
Level of Education, Urban/Rural, Region.
The Committee on the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in its General comment 13, (para. 6.a) stresses that the State has to ensure that ‘functioning educational institutions and programmes have to be available in sufficient quantity within the jurisdiction of the State party’.