The HRD Minister Mr. Kapil Sibal has expressed hope that basic infrastructure facilities will be made available within three years for providing free and compulsory quality elementary education to every child. In an exclusive interview to All India Radio, he said that the significance of the Right to Education Act is that it is both statutory and enforceable in a court of law. He said that State Governments are obliged to ensure that a child in the 6-14 age bracket is admitted to a school as it is a mandatory act. Mr. Sibal said five lakh teachers will be recruited in the next six months and will be provided requisite qualifications within five years to impart quality education to the children. He appealed to the private sector to come forward in a big way to help establish teachers' training institutes apart from such provisions to be made by State Governments and through public-private partnership mode.<br/><br/>In reply to a question on the standardization of education, the Minister categorically stated that he is against it and favoured core curriculum to be devised by the stakeholders with emphasis on creativity. Speaking on the reservations provided for in the Act in private educational institutions, he said beginning the next academic session 25 per cent of the seats in Class One will be for the disadvantaged communities.<br/><br/>This 25 per cent reservation will continue every year till the next eight years when 25 per cent of the seats in the schools will reserved for SCs, STs, OBCs, Minorities and differently abled children.<br/><br/>Referring to the Prime Minister's observations on the Act, Mr. Sibal appealed to all the stakeholders including civil society, NGOs, Panchayati bodies and State Governments should come together to empower the community.