Gujarat
Rules
Gujarat Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Rules, 2012
Eligibility
Disadvantaged Groups: (Special status must be recognised by a certificate of any appropriate authority)
Scheduled Castes (S.C.)
Scheduled Tribes (S.T.)
Other Backward Castes (O.B.C.)
Weaker Section:
Below Poverty Line (B.P.L.)
Schools
Ahmedabad - List of private unaided schools chosen by the government for Section 12
For more information, see IIMA's Right to Education Resource Centre
Application Forms
Application forms are usually distributed in February
On completion of the forms, they will have to be submitted in one of these collection centres
Compulsory Documents
BPL Card/Income Certificate
Residence Proof (Ration Card in the name of parents, with child’s name on the ration card or Aadhar Card or Voter ID Card or Electricity Bill or Tax Receipt of the house or any other document issued by the government which has the parents name and the address)
Birth Certificate
Other supporting documents (if applicable)
SC/ST/OBC (non-creamy layer) Certificate
Disability Certificate
For more information on how to obtain these certificates, please see here
Application Process
Apply
For expert assistance to submit applications, please contact
IIM Ahmedabad, Right to Education Resource Centre at
rterc[at]iimahd.ernet.in
or
Call 079 - 30918111 or 079-6632-4136
Contact
Minister (Education)
Principal Secretary (Primary Education)
Deputy Secretary (Primary Education)
Director (Directorate of Primary Education)
District Primary Education Officers
Members of Parliament: Lok Sabha | Rajya Sabha
Monitor
Train
The rules state that:
"Special training for the special category children shall be undertaken by the school management to integrate them with other children. Teachers and the school management should be sensitized for the proper integration of these children through professionally conducted trainings."
Penalty
"Under no circumstances should the special category children be discriminated against regarding their access to infrastructure, co-curricular activities or in the behavior of teachers, management and/or students. A serious contravention of this rule may lead to the withdrawal of recognition."
Enquire
Gujarat Information Commission
Complain
Gujarat Commission for the Protection of Child Rights
Information Posters
[Source: RTE Resource Centre]
Videos
[Source: Jagriti, MICA via RTE Resource Centre]
[Source: RTE Resource Centre]
News
2014
Gujarat agrees to pre-matric scholarship for minorities, allocates Rs 12.61 crore (Financial Express, 4 July 2014)
IIM-Ahmedabad centre secures 800 admissions under RTE (Times of India, 24 June, 2014)
IIM-A Students Help Parents to Claim Right to Education for their Children through RRC Project (Jagran Josh, 17 Feb 2014)
2013
Schools say RTE quotas breed indiscipline: Survey (Chitra Unnithan, TNN, 11 October 2013)
Reservation scheme for EWS in schools misses target in 1st yr (Indian Express, 24 July 2013)
Right to Education can't be implemented on pilot basis: Experts (TNN, 4 July 2013)
Right to Education Act receives lukewarm response in Gujarat (Bharat Yagnik, TNN, 4 July 2013)
Impact of RTE: 5,300 poor students to go to school (Daily Bhaskar, 19 June 2013)
Govt wakes up to RTE, reserves 25% seats in pvt schools for ‘poor’ kids (Ritu Sharma, 5 June 2013)
Gujarat orders 25% seats for RTE, will schools comply? (DNA, 19 April 2013)
HC seeks details of RTE implementation (Times of India, 26 March 2013)
Education office flooded with demands under Right to Education Act (Sachin Sharma, Times of India, 2 February 2013)
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