{ "id": 27044, "slug": "delhi-primary-education-act-1960", "title": "Delhi Primary Education Act, 1960", "short_title": "Delhi Primary Education Act, 1960", "act_number": "(Act No. 39 of 1960)", "act_year": 1960, "act_type": "STATE", "location": "Delhi", "law_status": "unknown", "enactment_date": null, "description": "Delhi Primary Education Act, 1960", "preamble": "", "section_label": "Section", "sections": [ { "number": "1", "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 0 }, { "number": "2", "title": "2. Definitions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) \"academic year\" means the year beginning on such date as a local authority may specify with respect to any specified area or with respect to approved schools generally or any approved school or class of approved schools in particular within its jurisdiction;\n(b) \"approved school\" means any school in any specified area within the jurisdiction of a local authority imparting primary education which-\n(i) is under the management of the State Government or the local authority, or\n(ii) being under any other management, is recognised by the local authority as an approved school for the purposes of this Act;\n(c) \"attendance authority\" means any person appointed to be an attendance authority under section 7;\n(d) \"to attend an approved school\" means to be present for instruction at an approved school on so many days in a year and at such time or times on each one of those days as may be fixed by the local authority concerned;\n(e) \"child\" means a boy or girl within such age group, not being less than six or more than fourteen, as may be specified in a declaration made under section 4;\n(f) \"local authority\" means the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, the New Delhi Municipal Committee and the Delhi Cantonment Board;\n(g) \"parent\" , in relation to any child, includes a guardian and every person who has the actual custody of the child;\n(h) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(i) \"primary education\" means education up to such class or standard, not beyond the eighth class or standard, as may be prescribed;\n(j) \"rural areas\" shall have the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 (66 of 1957);\n(k) \"special school\" means any institution which imparts such primary education as is in the opinion of the State Government suitable for children suffering from any physical or mental defect;\n(l) \"specified area\" means any area within the jurisdiction of a local authority in which primary education is declared by that authority to be compulsory under section 4.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": true, "sort_order": 1 }, { "number": "3", "title": "3. Schemes for primary education.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the area in which primary education shall be compulsory;\n(b) the approximate number of children to whom the scheme will apply, classified according to age and mother-tongue;\n(c) a list of existing approved schools and the schools, if any, proposed to be opened for the purpose, classified by languages in which instruction is given or is proposed to be given;\n(d) the number of teachers already employed and the additional staff proposed to be recruited;\n(e) the recurring and non-recurring cost of the scheme; and\n(f) such other particulars as may be prescribed.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 2 }, { "number": "4", "title": "4. Primary education to be compulsory in areas covered by schemes.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) be published in the Official Gazette and in such other manner as the local authority may decide;\n(b) be so made as to ensure that there is an interval of not less than one hundred and twenty days between the date of the publication of the declaration and the first day of the next academic year.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 3 }, { "number": "5", "title": "5. Grants-in-aid.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 4 }, { "number": "6", "title": "6. Duty of local authority to prepare lists of children.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 5 }, { "number": "7", "title": "7. Attendance authorities.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 6 }, { "number": "8", "title": "8. Attendance authority to notify parent of his obligation towards his child.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 7 }, { "number": "9", "title": "9. Responsibility of parent to cause his child to attend school.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 8 }, { "number": "10", "title": "10. Reasonable excuse for non-attendance.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) that there is no approved school within the prescribed distance from his residence;\n(b) that the child is receiving instruction in some other manner which is declared to be satisfactory by the State Government or by an officer authorised by it in this behalf;\n(c) that the child has already completed primary education up to the class or standard specified in the declaration under section 4;\n(d) that the child suffers from a physical or mental defect which prevents him from attendance;\n(e) that there is any other compelling circumstance which prevents the child from attending school, provided the same is certified as such by the attendance authority;\n(f) such other circumstance as may be prescribed.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 9 }, { "number": "11", "title": "11. Special schools for physically or mentally deficient children.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 10 }, { "number": "12", "title": "12. Special provision for part-time education in certain cases.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 11 }, { "number": "13", "title": "13. Attendance orders.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) that he is no longer the parent in respect of the child; or\n(ii) that circumstances have arisen which provide a reasonable excuse for non-attendance; and thereupon the attendance authority may, after holding an inquiry in the prescribed manner, cancel or modify the attendance order.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 12 }, { "number": "14", "title": "14. Children not to be employed so as to prevent them from attending school.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 13 }, { "number": "15", "title": "15. Primary education to be free.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 14 }, { "number": "16", "title": "16. Age of child how to be computed.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 15 }, { "number": "17", "title": "17. Failure of local authority to prepare or implement scheme.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 16 }, { "number": "13", "title": "18. Penalty for contravention of section 13.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 17 }, { "number": "14", "title": "19. Penalty for contravention of section 14.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 18 }, { "number": "20", "title": "20. Courts competent to try offences.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) in rural areas to which the Delhi Panchayat Raj Act, 1954 (Delhi Act III of 1955) extends, the Panchayati Adalat, constituted under section 50 of that Act, within whose jurisdiction the person committing the offence resides;\n(b) in other areas, the court of a magistrate having jurisdiction.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 19 }, { "number": "21", "title": "21. Cognizance of offences.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 20 }, { "number": "22", "title": "22. Certain persons to be public servants.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 21 }, { "number": "23", "title": "23. Protection of action taken in good faith.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 22 }, { "number": "24", "title": "24. Delegation of powers.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 23 }, { "number": "25", "title": "25. Power to make rules.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the class or standard education up to which shall be considered as primary education;\n(b) the particulars to be contained in any scheme submitted under this Act, including particulars relating to the provision made or to be made in any area for the establishment of special schools or of schools imparting primary education on a part-time basis or for the supply of food or refreshments, books, writing materials, uniforms or other necessary amenities, to children while attending school;\n(c) the manner in which lists of children may be prepared in any specified area under section 6, the intervals at which the lists shall be kept revised and persons with whose assistance such lists shall be prepared;\n(d) the functions to be performed, and the manner in which such functions may be performed, by attendance authorities;\n(e) the distance beyond which a child may not be compelled to attend an approved school;\n(f) the circumstances which may be regarded as reasonable excuses for the non-attendance of a child within the meaning of section 10;\n(g) the manner in which any inquiry under this Act may be held;\n(h) the form in which an attendance order under this Act may be passed;\n(i) the registers, statements and other information to be maintained or furnished by approved schools for the purposes of this Act;\n(j) any other matter which has to be, or may be, prescribed under this Act.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 24 }, { "number": "26", "title": "26. Repeal of Punjab Primary Education Act.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 25 } ], "metadata": { "Act ID": "Last Updated 1st January, 2020 [dl197]", "Act Number": "(Act No. 39 of 1960)", "Enactment Date": "", "Act Year": "1960", "Short Title": "Delhi Primary Education Act, 1960", "Type": "UNION_TERRITORY", "Location": "Delhi" }, "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:22" }