New Delhi, Mar 25 (PTI) HRD Minister Kapil Sibal was visibly upset today as a key bill seeking to treat children with disabilities as a disadvantaged group under the Right to Education Act could not be taken up in the Rajya Sabha on the last day of the budget session.
As the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Bill 2010 was listed in the order paper, Sibal came prepared.
However, to his disappointment he came to know minutes before the start of the proceedings that the Bill was not going to be taken up.
While the Left party members were on the keen on passage of the bill, the BJP wanted that there should be enough time for the debate on the important measure. The BJP wanted at least four-hour discussion on the bill.