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Tuesday, April 9

No capitation fee and screening procedure while admitting child as per RTE Act, 2009



As per section 13, Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, while admitting a child no school or a person shall collect capitation fee and/or subject to child or her parents or guardian to screening procedure.


In case above provision is contravened following punishment is prescribed:

(a) Receipt of capitation fee: punishable with fine, which may extend to ten times the capitation fee charged;

(b) Subjects a child to screening procedure: punishable with fine, which may extend to twenty-five thousand rupees for the first contravention and fifty thousand rupees for each subsequent contravention.