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.