Haryana issues guideline on Education Act

Updated on: Friday, April 01, 2011

The Directorate of Elementary Education in Haryana has issued guidelines for the effective implementation of the Right to Education Act.

Giving details of the guidelines, a spokesman of the Directorate said here that every child in the age group of six to 14 years would be provided eight years of elementary education by all the government schools, government aided and recognised schools.
He said that no child would be denied admission for want of documents, no child would be turned away if the admission cycle in the school was over and no child would be asked to take an admission test.

Children with disabilities would also be educated in the mainstream schools.

The spokesman said all private schools would be required to enroll school children from economically weaker and disadvantaged sections to the extent of 25 per cent of their enrollment, by simple random selection.

No seat in this quota could be left vacant. These children would be treated at par with all other children in the school and would be subsidised by the state at the rate of average per learner costs in the government school.

Of the 25 per cent reservation for the weaker sections of the society, 12.5 per cent reservation would be for weaker sections, five per cent each for members belonging to SC and OBC, 1.25 per cent each for widows of soldiers and children of handicapped parents, he said.

The schools would be required to make public the date of admission and at least 15 days period would be given for submitting applications.

Haryana issues guideline on Education Act

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