RIGHT TO EDUCATION ACT -2009 RULES IN ANDHRA PRADESH
The Indian Parliament enacted the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act,2009 (Act No.35 of 2009) to provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years.
2. The Ministry of Law and Justice, have issued a Gazette notification (Extraordinary) No.359, dated 16.02.2010 under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act,2009 appointing the 01.04.2010 as the date on which the provisions of the said Act shall come into force in the state.
3. After careful consideration, the State Government have decided to issue the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Rules, 2010 for the State of Andhra Pradesh under the provisions of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act,2009 (Central Act No.35 of 2009).
4. The Commissioner, Printing and Stationery and Stores Purchase, AP, Hyderabad is requested to publish the following Notification in an Extraordinary issue of the Andhra Pradesh Gazette dt. 05.03.2011.
5. This order issues with the concurrence of Finance Department vide theirU.O.No. 29712/517/Expr.SE/2010, dated.26.11.2010
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NOTIFICATION – I
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (i) of Section 38 of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act',2009 (Act No.35 of 2009), the Governor of Andhra Pradesh hereby makes the following Rules.
1. Short title
These Rules may be called "The Andhra Pradesh Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Rules, 2010".
2. They shall be deemed to have come into force with effect from 1st
April'2010.
3. Definitions :-
(I) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,
(1) 'Act' means The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009.
(2) Anganwadi' means an Anganwadi Centre established under the Integrated Child Development Scheme of the Ministry of Women and Child Development of the Government of India
(3) Child' means any child male or female in the age group of 6 to 14 years and includes a child who has completed five years of age as on 1stSeptember of the year of admission.
(4) Child belonging to socially disadvantaged group means and includes a child belonging to the schedule caste, schedule tribe, orphans, Migrant and Street children, Children With Special Needs and HIV affected/infected children.
(5) A child belonging to Weaker Sections means a child belonging to BC, Minorities and includes OCs whose parents' income does not exceed Rs. 60,000/- Per annum.
(6) 'Collector' means the head of civil and revenue administration in the district
(7) 'Corporator' means elected member of a ward of a Municipal Corporation within the limits of Andhra Pradesh or of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.
(8) 'Councilor' means elected member of a ward of an urban local body
(9) 'District' means a revenue district of the State.
(10) 'District Educational Officer (DEO)' means the officer responsible for implementing the programmes for elementary education at district level.
(11) "ECE" means Early Childhood Care Centers established by Sarva Siksha Abiyan in the premises of primary schools or elsewhere to provide pre-school education to the children in the age group of 3-5 years.
(12) 'Elementary School' means a school that imparts education between class I and class VIII. It includes all existing schools in Andhra Pradesh, namely, Primary, Upper Primary & High Schools having these classes
(13) 'Free Education' means and includes providing elementary education to all children with no direct costs like fees/capitation fees, or indirect costs like kind/services / fees for stationary, etc. to be borne by the parents of child. The Government shall provide free textbooks, notebooks @ 1 notebook per subject and other writing material, midday meals with Nutritional values, uniforms in neighborhood schools run by the Government.
(14) 'Gram Panchayat 'means Gram Panchayat constituted under the Andhra Pradesh Panchayati Raj Act 1994.
(15) 'Local authority' means, the mandal parishad / zilla parishad / municipalities as the case may be, in their respective jurisdictions for the purposes of the Act.
(16) "Mandal Educational Officer (MEO)' means the officer responsible for implementing the programmes for elementary education at the mandal level.
(17) 'Mandal Resource Person (MRP)' means a resource teacher who coordinates academic activities in a cluster of schools
(18) 'Neighborhood area of a school' means the habitations in a safe walking distance of 1 km for a Primary School, 3 kms for an Upper Primary / High School having classes VI to VIII.
(19) 'Out of School Child' means a child in the age group of 6-14 who has not completed elementary education (who is either never enrolled in the school or dropped out without completing elementary education). A pupil of an elementary school absent for more than one month shall also be considered to be an out of school child.
(20) 'Primary school' means a school that imparts education between class I and class V.
(21) 'Sarpanch' means elected head of the Gram Panchayat.
(22) "School mapping" means planning school location to overcome social barriers and geographical distance and includes assessing availability of schooling facilities for elementary education based on certain fixed norms and standards in terms of location, infrastructure, teachers, by using the method of distance matrix between one habitation and other habitations. It includes The Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping of all the schools in Andhra Pradesh prepared by the Rajiv Vidya Mission (SSA), Andhra Pradesh.
(23) 'State' means the state of Andhra Pradesh
(24) 'State Government' means the Government of Andhra Pradesh.
(25) 'Specified Category' in relation to a school means the residential schools including Kasturba Gandhi Baalika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) and Minority residential schools run by Andhra Pradesh Residential Educational Institutions Society (APREIS), Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society (APSWREIS), Andhra Pradesh Tribal Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society (APTWREIS), Ashram Schools run by Integrated Tribal Development Agencies (ITDAs), Sports schools run by Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh (SAAP) in addition to Kendriya Vidyalayas, Navodaya Vidyalayas, Sainik Schools for the purposes of sub-clause (III) of clause (n) of section (2) of the Act.
(26) "The Academic Authority under the Act" means The State Council for Educational Research and Training, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
(27) "The Implementing Authority of the Act" means the State Project Director,Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, and it includes the Commissioner and Director of School Education, Andhra Pradesh.
(28) 'Walking Distance' means the distance covered by a child from habitation to the school.
(29) 'Ward Member' means elected member of a ward of Gram Panchayat. All other words and expressions used herein and not defined but defined in the Act shall have the same meaning respectively assigned to them in the Act.
4. Special Training For Out of School Children
(1) The School Management Committee/ Local Authority shall identify children requiring special training and organize such training in the following manner, namely:
(a) The special training shall be based on specially designed, age appropriate learning material, approved by the academic authority specified in section 29(1) of the Act.
