A school established, owned or controlled by
the appropriate Government or a local authority; shall provide free and compulsory
elementary education to all children admitted therein
An aided school receiving aid or grants to meet whole or part of its expenses shall
provide free and compulsory elementary education to such proportion of children
admitted therein as its annual recurring aid or grants to received bears to its
annual recurring expenses, subject to a minimum of twenty-five per cent
A school belonging to specified category or an unaided school shall admit in class I, to the
extent of at least twenty-five per cent, of the strength of that class,
children belonging to weaker section and disadvantaged group in the
neighbourhood and provide free and compulsory elementary education till its
completion. An unaided school providing such free and compulsory elementary education shall be
reimbursed expenditure so incurred by it to the extent of per-child-expenditure
incurred by the State, or the actual amount charged from the child, whichever
is less. Such reimbursement shall not exceed pre-child-expenditure incurred by
a school established, owned or controlled by the
appropriate Government or a local authority:
Where such school is already under obligation
to provide free education to a specified number of children on account of it
having received any land, building, equipment or other facilities, either free
of cost or at a concessional rate such school shall not be entitled for
reimbursement to the extent of such obligation.
Where all schools in the category mentioned in
section 2(n) imparts pre-school education, the above provisions shall apply for
admission to such pre-school education.