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GAW 2006
Global Action Week 2007

GAW is an annual event that is organized worldwide to demand for an accessible quality education and question the Governments on their performances and ask them to keep their promises towards Education for All (EFA). The campaign week for 2007 shall be taken up in between 23-29th April 2007 in 13 India states with culmination events at the national level. Under the leadership of Global Campaign for Education (GCE), the National Coalition for Education (NCE) along with the Working Group members at the national and state level convenes the Week in India.

The objective of the GAW is to place Education is a key to human emancipation, poverty alleviation and gender equality. Approximately 11 crore Indian children are deprived of basic education and a life dignity. This large chunk of Indian population gets recycled into an impoverished community and for obvious reasons the SC, STs, Women and Girls Child remain to be worst victim. It is against this background, the National Coalition for Education, a conglomerate of India's five large Orgnisations that include civil society organizations and trade unions, call for your contribution in building a people's struggle towards making Right to Education a justiciable Fundamental Right.
 
Main Events of GAW 2007
23rd April: Human Chain formations and Theatrical Presentations by Children
24-26th April: National Public Hearing (25th April), Officials Back to School and Signature campaigns to continue
27th April: Working out Ten-points steps towards EFA and Quality Education and subsequent submission of Memorandum to the President, PM and Human Resource Minister to be represented child activists
28-29th April: Press-Releases and culmination in Delhi and states
We Demand
1. Make Education a judiciable subject as a Fundamental Right
2. Ban Child Labour and child Trafficking in any form
3. Ensure a Minimum 6% GDP with subsequent increase
4. Provide scholarships, school uniforms, textbooks and free education for all
5. Proper infrastructure and improvement of service conditions.
6. 220 teaching days of the year to be fixed
7. No to non-teaching activities
8. Community monitoring system on education
9. Recruitment of qualified teacher and female teachers
10. Setting up of a National Commission on Education
The Need
A collective struggle is an urgent need to make Education a Human Fundamental Right. The persisting never enrolled children, drop-out, child labour, physical abuse, trafficking, plight of the disadvantaged, high PTR, mushrooming unaffordable schools, non-teaching works for teachers, lack of resources and mismatched utilization of funds are some gloomy features of Indian education.
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