Section 3: Right of child to free education

3. Right of child to free education.—(1) Every child, regardless of sex, nationality or race, shall have a fundamental right to free and compulsory education in a neighbourhood school. (2) No child shall be liable to pay any kind of fee, charges, expenses, etc., which may prevent him from pursuing and completing the education. (3) It is the obligation of the appropriate Government to,— (a) provide free education to every child; (b) ensure admission of children of migrant families; (c) ensure compulsory admission, attendance and completion of education; (d) ensure safely of travel of the child and the teacher to and from school; (e) ensure availability of a neighbourhood school; (f) ensure that the disadvantaged child is not discriminated against and prevented from, on any grounds whatsoever, pursuing and completing education: (g) provide infrastructure including school building, playgrounds, laboratories, teaching learning material and reaching staff; (h) monitor functioning of schools within its jurisdiction; (i) decide the academic calendar; (j) provide all training facilities for teachers and students; (k) ensure good quality education conforming to the prescribed standards and norms; (l) ensure timely prescribing of curriculum and courses of study for education; and (m) provide proper training facility for teachers.

Effective date: 2012-01-01

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