- (h) ensure timely prescribing of curriculum and courses of study for elementary education; and
- (i) provide training facility for teachers.
Duties of local authority. 9. Every local authority shall—
- (a) provide free and compulsory elementary education to every child:
- Provided that where a child is admitted by his or her parents or guardian, as the case may be, in a school other than a school established, owned, controlled or substantially financed by funds provided directly or indirectly by the appropriate Government or a local authority, such child or his or her parents or guardian, as the case may be, shall not be entitled to make a claim for reimbursement of expenditure incurred on elementary education of the child in such other school;
- (b) ensure availability of a neighbourhood school as specified in section 6;
- (c) ensure that the child belonging to weaker section and the child belonging to disadvantaged group are not discriminated against and prevented from pursuing and completing elementary education on any grounds;
- (d) maintain records of children up to the age of fourteen years residing within its jurisdiction, in such manner as may be prescribed;
- (e) ensure and monitor admission, attendance and completion of elementary education by every child residing within its jurisdiction;
- (f) provide infrastructure including school building, teaching staff and learning material;
- (g) provide special training facility specified in section 4
- (h) ensure good quality elementary education conforming to the standards and norms specified in the Schedule;
- (i) ensure timely prescribing of curriculum and courses of study for elementary education;
- (j) provide training facility for teachers;
- (k) ensure admission of children of migrant families;
- (l) monitor functioning of schools within its jurisdiction; and
- (m) decide the academic calendar.
Duty of parents and guardian. 10. It shall be the duty of every parent or guardian to admit or cause to be admitted his or her child or ward, as the case may be, to an elementary education in the neighbourhood school.
Appropriate Government to provide for pre-school education. 11. With a view to prepare children above the age of three years for elementary education and to provide early childhood care and education for all children until they complete the age of six years, the appropriate Government may make necessary arrangement for providing free pre-school education for such children.
CHAPTER IV
Responsibilities of schools and teachers
Extent of school's for free and compulsory education. 12. (1) For the purposes of this Act, a school,-
- (a) specified in sub-clause (i) of clause (n) of section 2 shall provide free and responsibility compulsory elementary education to all children admitted therein;
- (b) specified in sub-clause (ii) of clause (n) of section 2 shall provide free and compulsory elementary education to such proportion of children admitted therein as its annual recurring aid or grants so received bears to its annual recurring expenses, subject to a minimum of twenty-five per cent.;
- (c) specified in sub-clauses (iii) and (iv) of clause (n) of section 2 shall admit in class I, to the extent of at least twenty-five per cent. of the strength of that class, children belonging to weaker section and disadvantaged group in the
