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Section 28 of the RTE Act banned teachers in schools from teaching students through private tutorials, a thriv... Read More
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court’s Thursday judgement bringing all schools, except the unaided minority institutions, within the ambit of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act gave rise to an eventuality — teachers of all schools could be prohibited from giving private tutorials.
The majority judgment by Chief Justice of India S H Kapadia and Justice Swatanter Kumar upheld the constitutional validity of the RTE Act and said it would apply to all government, aided and private schools.
Interestingly, Section 28 of the Act banned teachers in schools from teaching students through private tutorials, a thriving business across the country.
The bench took note of this provision and said “to ensure that teachers should contribute in imparting quality education in the school itself, Section 28 imposes total prohibition on them to engage in private tuition or private teaching activities.”
Given the difficulty faced by working parents in looking after the studies of their wards at home, most engage private tutors, many of whom are already working as teachers in schools, run either by private management or government. Such a ban, if implemented under the mandate of the Act with the additional legitimacy conferred on Thursday by the apex court, could add to parents’ worries.
Other important provisions of the RTE Act are:
— Section 3(2) says no child shall be liable to pay any kind of fee or charges or expenses which may prevent him or her from pursuing and completing the elementary education.
— Section 6 makes it obligatory for the government and local authority to establish a school within such areas or limits of neighbourhood, as may be prescribed, where it is not so established, within three years from the commencement of Act. SC said the emphasis is on providing neighbourhood school facility at the gram panchayat level.
— Section 12(2) says unaided school which has not received any land, building, equipment or other facilities, either free of cost or at concessional rate, would be entitled for reimbursement of the expenditure 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.
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— Section 13 bans collection of capitation fee by schools from any child.
— Section 16 and 17 provide for prohibition of holding back and expulsion and of physical punishment or mental harassment to a child
— Sections 19 and 25 provide for withdrawal of recognition to a school which contravenes RTE Act, 2009.