MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
(SHRI UPENDRA KUSHWAHA)
(a): The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 provides for free and
compulsory education to every child of the age of six to fourteen years in a neighbourhood school till
completion of elementary education. It specifies the duties and responsibilities of appropriate
Governments, local authority, parents, teachers and schools in providing free and compulsory
education, and sharing of financial and other responsibilities between the Central and State
Governments. It lays down the norms and standards relating, inter alia, to Pupil Teacher Ratios
(PTRs), buildings and infrastructure, school-working days, teacher-working hours. It prohibits of
deployment of teachers for non-educational work, other than decennial census, elections to local
authority, state legislatures and parliament, and disaster relief. It provides for an academic authority
to lay down teacher qualifications and training of untrained teachers already present in the system. It
prohibits (a) physical punishment and mental harassment; (b) screening procedures for admission of
children; (c) capitation fee; (d) private tuition by teachers and (e) running of schools without
recognition. It provides for development of curriculum in consonance with the values enshrined in
the Constitution, and which would ensure the all-round development of the child.
(b): Section 12 (1)(c) of the RTE Act, 2009 mandates that all private un-aided schools shall admit
children belonging to weaker section and disadvantaged group in the neighbourhood in class I (or
pre-school, as the case may be), to the extent of at least 25 percent of the strength of that class and
provide free and compulsory elementary education to them till its completion. Details of the number
of children admitted under Section 12(1)(c) of the RTE Act, 2009 in the year 2014-15 & 2015-16 are
given at Annexure-I.
(c): Complaints regarding non-admission of children under section 12(1) (c) of the RTE Act,
2009 are received from time to time and are referred for remedial action to the State Government
concerned, as the State Government is the appropriate government in the matter. Local grievance
redressal mechanisms have also been set up by the State Governments under the RTE Act, 2009. The
State Commission for Protection of Child Right (SCPCR) at the State level and the National
Commission for Protection of Child Right (NCPCR) at the national level, also redress grievances
with regard to the implementation of the RTE Act.
(d): Section 12(1)(c) of the RTE Act 2009 is applicable to Kendriya Vidyalayas and the details
of admission under this provision in Kendriya Vidyalayas is given at Annexure-II. As Navodaya
Vidyalayas start from Class VI, this provision is not applicable to them.
(e): Section 31 and 32 of the RTE Act, 2009 provides for monitoring of the rights of the child,
including admission of students belonging to Disadvantaged Groups and Economically Weaker
Sections, by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and the State
Commissions for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCRs), and redressal of grievances by the local
authorities.
(f): Details of financial support provided by the Central Government for all areas including
technological support to Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) and Navodaya Vidyalayas Samiti
(NVS) during the last three years are at Annexure-III. The financial support is not provided Statewise,
but to the organisations as a whole.
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