(1) Every child shall have a right to free and compulsory education from class one to ten, non-formal education, vocational education or a combination of all or any of the two as notified by the Government considering the needs, capability and age of the child so as to ensure completion of education or specified education in a school in the neighborhood or the school allocated for the child.
(2) The Government shall prescribe academic calendar for class one to class ten and for non-formal education, vocational education and special education.
(3) For purposes of subsection (1), a child or parent shall not be liable to pay any kind of fee or charges or expenses for completing the education in a school mentioned in sub clause (i) of clause (k) of section 2.
(4) The Government shall, in the prescribed manner, provide or cause to be provided suitable education to a child suffering from disability or a special child.

“free education” implies that the Government or a local authority shall not charge any fee or expense for providing education and shall endeavour to remove financial barriers that may prevent a child from completing ten years’ education;

(1) The Government shall:
(a) provide free and compulsory education to every child in the neighborhood school or the school allocated for the child;
(b) ensure good quality education conforming to the standards and norms of quality education; and
(c) prepare an annual statement of the children admitted and retained in the educational institutions.
(2) A local government shall:
(a) maintain, in the prescribed manner, a record of children up to the age of sixteen years residing within its jurisdiction; and
(b) ensure and monitor admission, attendance and completion of education by every child residing within its jurisdiction.

For purposes of this Act, a private sector school:
(a) specified in sub-clause (ii) of clause (k) of section 2, shall provide free education to such proportion of children admitted therein as its annual aid or grant so received bears to its annual recurring expenses;
(b) specified in sub-clauses (iii) and (iv) of clause (k) of section 2, shall admit in class one and then in every class, ten percent of the strength of that class, children, including disadvantaged children of the neighbourhood or other children as may be determined by the Government, and shall provide free and compulsory education to such children or, in the alternative, provide prescribed vouchers for education of disadvantaged children in any other school, as may be determined by the Government;
(c) shall provide the information pertaining to the students admitted under clauses (a) and (b) to the Government, the local authority or any other prescribed authority; and
(d) shall not require a parent to purchase textbooks, uniform or other material from a particular vendor or provider and shall not charge any amount other than tuition fee, admission fee or prescribed security in the name and style of building fund or under any other name or style.

(1) No school or person shall, while admitting a child in the school:
(a) collect any capitation fee; or
(b) in case of schools owned or controlled by the Government or a local authority, subject the child or his parent to any screening procedure.
(2) Any school or person who, in contravention of the provisions of subsection (1),–
(a) receives capitation fee, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to twenty times the capitation fee charged in the first instance and fifty thousand rupees for each subsequent instance of the contravention; or
(b) subjects a child or parent to screening procedure, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty thousand rupees in the first instance and one hundred thousand rupees for each subsequent instance of contravention.

Special provisions for education.– If a child above five years of age has not been admitted in any school or, after admission, could not complete education, the local government shall, in the prescribed manner, develop a mechanism to ensure admission of the child in a school according to age, previous class, and other circumstances.

(1) Subject to such exceptions as may be prescribed, a school shall admit children at the commencement of every academic year.
(2) Subject to the provisions of sections 3 and 6, a school shall not transfer or expel a child admitted in the school till the completion of the prescribed education until:
(a) arrangement is made for transfer of the child to any other school in the prescribed manner;
(b) the child has been assessed in two consecutive annual examinations as being below the educational standard of the school;
(c) a reasoned judgment has been passed by the disciplinary committee of the school that further retention of the child in such school shall be detrimental to the discipline of the school; or
(d) the child or parent fails to fulfill any prescribed condition including non-payment of fee of a private school.
(3) If a child is expelled from a school under subsection (2), the incharge of the school shall immediately inform the local government and such officer as the Government may authorize to receive such communication.
(4) The teacher or incharge of a school shall ensure that a child studying in the school is not subjected to corporal punishment or harassment.
(5) A person who contravenes any provision of this section shall be guilty of gross misconduct and shall be liable to disciplinary action under the law or contract of service of such person.

(1) The Government shall:
(a) take all necessary measures for the effective implementation of this Act; and
(b) inquire into complaints relating to right to education and take appropriate action.
(2) Any person having any grievance relating to the rights of a child to education may make a written complaint to the Government or to the prescribed authority.
(3) On receipt of a complaint under subsection (2), the Government or the prescribed authority shall decide the matter within the period of thirty days after affording a reasonable opportunity of being heard to the parties.
(4) Any order passed under this section shall be final and the administration of the school shall implement such order.