The document outlines 11 key features of India's Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act. The features include: (1) it is the state's responsibility to provide free elementary education to children aged 6 to 14; (2) no private schools can charge capitation fees or deny admission; and (3) schools must recruit quality teachers, reserve 25% of seats for disadvantaged groups, and have gender-balanced management committees to effectively implement the measures in the Act.

1. 11 features of...
India’s Right of Children to Free and
Compulsory Education Act.
Source: RIGHT TO EDUCATION, 2009 IN INDIA: A CHALLENGE
by Dr. Geeta Rani

2. 1. It is responsibility of the
State to provide free and
compulsory elementary
education to children.

3. 2. Only children aged between
6 and 14 will be covered by
this Act.

4. 3. No capitation fee can be
charged by schools.

5. 4. No child can be expelled
from school.

6. 5. No child to be denied
admission.

7. 6. Quality teachers should be
recruited.

8. 7. 25 % seats in all private
schools should be reserved for
disadvantaged sections.

9. 8. Parents must constitute 75%
of the members in management
committees.

10. 9. School management
committee should have 50%
women members.

11. 10. Collection of capitation fee will
attract a fine of upto 10 times the
amount collected. Screening procedure
will attract or invite a fine of up to
Rs. 25,000/ for the first offence and
double the amount for every
subsequent violation.

12. 11. National and State Commissions for
Protection of Child Rights must monitor
the effective implementation of the
measures in the Act and inquire into
complaints.