UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi says, everyone should have access to quality education and it should not become the right of few people. She hoped that the Right to Education Act will help in meeting this challenge. Expressing concern that many children drop out of schools and one fourth of the teachers are absent in rural areas, Sonia Gandhi stressed the need to raise the standard of all government schools like the Jawahar Navodaya Vidalayas which she said, are comparable with the best of schools in the country. She was speaking after inaugurating 31 new buildings of Jawahar Navodaya Vidalayas through vedeo conferencing at a function in New Delhi today on the international day of literacy. AIR Correspondent reports, it was in 1985-86 that the first two Jawahar navodya vidalayas were started in Jhajhar in Haryana and Amravati in Maharashtra. The objective was to develop and promote the talent of bright students from predominantly rural areas who would have been denied the opportunity otherwise because of their poor back ground. Today as JNVs celebrate their silver jjublee their 593 schools are giving education to over two lakh students. In 2009-2010 4000 students of these schools were selected to engineering and medical , 147 of them in IITs.They are indeed the schools of hope for children who cannot pay hefty fee. The need as Mrs Sonia Gandhi said, is to raise the standfard of all government schools with JNV which is comparable to the best of schools in the country.