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Education System To Undergo Massive Change

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The central government has finalized a bill that proposes to fix the minimum age for admission to pre-school at 3 years and 10 months.

The draft right to education bill, which will be put up for cabinet consideration in May, would also protect parents and children from screening by schools and prescribes huge fines in case of violation.

Prepared by the Human Resource Development Ministry, the bill says the admission age for Class I should be 5 years and 10 months before beginning of the academic year. This means, the admission age for two years of pre-schools would be 3 years and 10 months.

Last year, the Delhi government fixed 3 years as age for admission to pre-schools, 4 for pre-primary and 5 for Class I.

The bill, which aims at implementing the Right to Education guaranteed by the Constitution in 2002, shields parents from arbitrary admission rules of private schools. If found subjecting parents or children to screening, the schools will be fined Rs. 25,000.

A repeat offence will invite a fine of up to Rs. 50,000. If a schools is found guilty of taking capitation fee, the fine will be up to ten times of what it charged.

The schools has to follow the laid procedure for admission at any cost. Any violation that results in a deserving child not getting admission would invite a fine of up to Rs. 10,000. This fine can be imposed on the government servant responsible for implementing the RTE law too.

The draft empowers the State Commission for Protection of child rights or an other authority designated by the state government to impose the prescribed fines.

Source: Hindustan Times

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