India: Education

The registration of a criminal case against five daycare workers at a crèche operating within Capgemini Technology Services India Limited’s Brookefield campus in Bengaluru has brought renewed attention to a persistent gap in Indian law: the absence of a uniform, enforceable regulatory framework for workplace and standalone childcare facilities. The allegations — involving toddlers left in the care of employer-provided crèche staff — raise questions spanning criminal law, child protection legislation, employer obligations under labour law, and, increasingly, data protection law given the role that recorded video evidence played in bringing the matter to light.

India is witnessing a growing debate on whether children should have unrestricted access to social media. Concerns relating to mental health, cyberbullying, addictive online behaviour and harmful content have prompted discussions on introducing age-based restrictions for minors.

The Delhi High Court's landmark ruling in Telegram FZ LLC v. Union of India addresses whether Section 69A of the IT Act permits the government to block an entire platform rather than specific content. Following the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak scandal, where fraudulent channels circulated fake exam papers affecting millions of aspirants, the court upheld the Centre's power to impose a platform-wide ban on Telegram, sparking intense debate about the boundaries between examination integrity and digital censorship.

In a significant ruling, the Rajasthan High Court, Jaipur Bench, has reiterated the constitutional significance of the Right to Education as an inseparable facet of Article 21-A.

Private unaided schools occupy a peculiar position in Indian education law, they are private enterprises delivering a public good, subject to both the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (RTE Act) and state-specific education laws.

There is a broad underlying generational issue, namely, the growing crisis of student suicides in the context of contemporary education. As articulated by philosophers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Jiddu Krishnamurti...

The study aims to delve into the issue of menstrual hygiene management and concerns over period poverty to showcase the prevalence of period poverty in India with the help of the data collected from the respondents.

Sexual harassment, abuse and sexual assault against young children are on the rise and to ensure protection of children rights and to strengthen reporting and enforcement provisions, the Hon'ble Punjab and Haryana High Court ...

Legal education in India has been the subject of much debate in recent years.