Section 13
No capitation fee and screening procedure for admission.
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009
About this Act
An Act to provide for free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years.
(1) No school or person shall,
while admitting a child, collect any capitation fee and subject the child or his or her parents or guardian to
any screening procedure.
(2) Any school or person, if in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1),--
(a) receives capitation fee, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to ten times the capitation fee charged;
(b) subjects a child to screening procedure, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to twenty-five thousand rupees for the first contravention and fifty thousand rupees for each subsequent contraventions.
(2) Any school or person, if in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1),--
(a) receives capitation fee, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to ten times the capitation fee charged;
(b) subjects a child to screening procedure, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to twenty-five thousand rupees for the first contravention and fifty thousand rupees for each subsequent contraventions.