Ambarish Rai has been the National Convener of Right to Education Forum, since its formation in 2010 onwards. RTE Forum a collective platform of education networks, teachers’ organizations, and prominent educationists, working towards building a people’s movement to achieve the goal of equitable and quality education for all children through the realization of the Right to Education Act, 2009. He was one of the Champions from India under the Education Champion’s Network, Malala Fund’s key initiative to support education in developing countries. He has also remained the focal person in India for Global Consortium on Privatisation in Education and Human Rights and was part of the consultations that led to the formation of Abidjan Principles on the human rights obligations of States to provide public education and to regulate private involvement in education.
Previously, as the National Organizer, National Alliance for Fundamental Right to Education and Equity (NAFRE) from 2003, he played a vital role in gathering about 40 thousand people at New Delhi, India in 2001, demanding the Fundamental Right to Education which led to the 86th Constitutional Amendment in 2002 which made education a fundamental right in India. As an advocate of the discriminated and marginalised sections, he was involved in various people’s movements like the Tribal Movement, Peasants’ Movement and in the Trade Union Movement.
As National Convenor, Peoples’ Campaign for Common School System (2005-2010) , he led the campaign to demand for common school system in the country as envisaged in the Kothari Commission Report.
Ambarish Rai had started his activism back in 1987 as a student leader, when he was the National Secretary of the All India Students’ Federation. Since then, he has been a catalyst in driving social change and his vision was to establish a just and equitable society.
He will be remembered as a stalwart in the Education Movement of India, who devoted his life to the cause of the right of education of India’s children.
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Shri Ambarish Rai will be remembered as a stalwart in the Education Movement of India, who devoted his life to the cause of the right of education of India’s children.
As National Convenor, Peoples’ Campaign for Common School System (2005-2010) , he led the campaign to demand for common school system in the country as envisaged in the Kothari Commission Report.
Ambarish Rai has been the National Convener of Right to Education Forum, since its formation in 2010 onwards. RTE Forum a collective platform of education networks, teachers’ organizations, and prominent educationists, working towards building a people’s movement to achieve the goal of equitable and quality education for all children through the realization of the Right to Education Act, 2009.
Previously, as the National Organizer, National Alliance for Fundamental Right to Education and Equity (NAFRE) from 2003, he played a vital role in gathering about 40 thousand people at New Delhi, India in 2001, demanding the Fundamental Right to Education which led to the 86th Constitutional Amendment in 2002 which made education a fundamental right in India.
