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The Goa, Daman and Diu School Education Act, 1984
The Goa, Daman and Diu School Education Act, 1984
Sections
1. Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Power of Administrator to specify the scales of pay of teachers of unaided schools.
Section 34. Power of Government to regulate education in schools.
Section 45. Recognition of schools.
Section 56. Scheme of Management.
Section 67. Aid to recognised schools.
Section 78. Affiliations.
Section 89. School Property.
Section 910. School Fund and School Staff Account fund.
Section 1011. Terms and conditions of service of employees of recognized private schools.
Section 1112. Employees to be governed by a Code of Conduct.
Section 1213. Salaries of employees.
Section 1315. Power to prescribe minimum qualifications for recruitment.
Section 1516. Power to prescribe Code of Conduct.
Section 1617. Contract of service.
Section 1718. Admission to recognized schools.
Section 1819. Fees and other charges.
Section 1920. Taking over management of school.
Section 2021. Section 20 not to apply to unaided minority schools.
Section 2022. Appeal.
Section 2223. Offence and punishment.
Section 2324. Advisory Board.
Section 2425. Delegation of Powers.
Section 2526. Inspection of Schools.
Section 2627. Jurisdiction of Civil courts barred.
Section 2728. Protection of action taken in good faith.
Section 2829. Power to make rules.
Section 2930. Power to remove difficulties.
Section 30
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"content": "(a) \"Administrator\" means the Administrator of the Union territory appointed by the President under article 239 of the Constitution;\n(b) \"Advisory Board\" means the Board as constituted under section 24 of this Act;\n(c) \"aid\" means any aid granted to a recognised school by the Administrator, or any other authority designated by the Administrator;\n(d) \"aided school\" means a recognised private school which is receiving aid from the Administrator or any other authority designated by the Administrator;\n(e) \"appropriate authority\" means the Administrator or any other officer authorised by him in this behalf;\n(f) \"Director\" means the Director of Education, Government of Goa, Daman and Diu, and includes any other officer authorised by him to perform all or any of the functions of the Director under this Act;\n(g) \"employee\" means a teacher and includes every other employee working in a recognised school;\n(h) \"existing employee\" means an employee of an existing school who is employed in such a school immediately before the commencement of this Act;\n(i) \"existing school\" means a recognised school which is in existence at the commencement of this Act;\n(j) \"Government\" means the Government of Goa, Daman and Diu;\n(k) \"Head of school\" means the principal academic officer, by whatever name called, of a recognised school;\n(l) \"local authority\" means -\n(i) in relation to an area within the local limits of a municipal council constituted under the Goa, Daman and Diu Municipalities Act, 1968, the municipal council concerned;\n(ii) in relation to an area within the local limits of a Village Panchayat constituted under the Goa, Daman and Diu Village Panchayat Regulations, 1962, the Village Panchayat concerned;\n(m) \"manager\" in relation to a school, means the person by whatever name called, who is entrusted, either on the date on which this Act comes into force or, as the case may be, under a scheme of management made under section 6 with the management of the affairs of that school;\n(n) \"managing committee\" means the body of individuals which is entrusted with the management of any recognised private school;\n(o) \"minority school\" means a school established and administered by a minority having the right to do so under clause (1) of article 30 of the Constitution;\n(p) \"notification\" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;\n(q) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(r) \"private school\" means a school which is not run by the Central Government, Administrator, or any other authority designated or sponsored by the Central Government or Administrator;\n(s) \"public examination\" means an examination conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education, Council for School Certificate Examinations or the Goa, Daman and Diu Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education or any other Board recognised by the Administrator or any other officer authorised by him in this behalf;\n(t) \"recognized school\" means a school recognized by the appropriate authority;\n[(tt) \"residential school\" means a school which provides facilities of lodging and boarding to its student;]\n[(u) \"school\" includes a pre-primary, primary, high school and higher secondary school, and also includes any other institution which imparts education or training below the degree level, but does not include an institution which imparts technical education;]\n(v) \"school property\" means all movable and immovable property belonging to, or in the possession of, the School and all other rights and interests, in, or arising out of, such property, and includes land, building and its appurtenances, playgrounds, hostels, furniture, books, apparatus, maps, equipment, utensils, cash, reserve funds, investments and bank balances;\n(w) \"teacher\" includes the Head of a school;\n(x) \"tribunal\" means the Administrative Tribunal constituted under the Goa, Daman and Diu Administrative Tribunal Act, 1965;\n(y) \"unaided minority school\" means a recognised minority school which does not receive any aid;\n(z) \"Union territory\" means the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu.\nChapter II\nEstablishment, recognition, affiliation, management of, and aid to Schools",
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"content": "(a) in the case of a primary school, no school is functioning within a radius of 1 km. from the proposed school;\n(b) in the case of High School, no school of that category is functioning within a radius of 3 kms. from the proposed school;\n(c) in the case of Higher Secondary school, no school of that category is functioning within a radius of 8 kms. from the proposed school:",
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"title": "5. Recognition of schools.",
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"content": "(a) it has such funds to ensure its financial stability which regulate payment of salaries and allowances and other benefits to its employees as prescribed;\n(b) it has a scheme of management as required by section 6;\n(c) it has suitable or adequate accommodation and sanitary facilities having regard, among other factors, to the number, age and sex of the pupils attending it;\n(d) it provides for approved courses of study and efficient instructions;\n(e) it has teachers with prescribed qualification;\n(f) it has the prescribed facilities for physical education, library service, laboratory work, workshop practice and co-curricular activities; and\n(g) it gives an undertaking that it will follow the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder.",
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"content": "(a) prepared for, and presented to, such public examination as may be held by the Directorate or any other officer or authority specified by the Administrator, or\n(b) subjected to such internal evaluation or assessment as may be prescribed.\nChapter III\nSchool Property",
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"content": "(a) any aid (other than maintenance grant) granted under section 7;\n(b) income other than income from fees accruing to the school;\n(c) any other contributions, endowments and the like.\n(a) the aid granted by the Administrator by way of maintenance grant;\n(b) income accruing to the school by way of fees.\n(a) by way of fees or other charges,\n(b) save as otherwise provided in clause (a), charges and payments which may be realized by the school for other specified purposes, and\n(c) any other contributions, endowments, gifts and the like.\n(b) save as otherwise provided in clause (a) charges and payments realized and all other contributions, endowments and gifts received by the school shall be utilized only for the specific purpose for which they were realized or received.\nChapter IV\nTerms and conditions of service of employees of recognized private schools",
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"title": "11. Terms and conditions of service of employees of recognized private schools.",
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"content": "(a) neglect his duties in teaching or curricular activities;\n(b) propagate anti-national, communal, caste or sectarian outlook;\n(c) make discrimination among the students;\n(d) indulge in malpractices connected with examination;\n(e) be irregular in attending the school;\n(f) accept any object of remunerative character from any source;\n(g) prepare or publish any book known as keys or guides;\n(h) engage himself as selling agent of any publishing firm;\n(i) indulge in political activities within the school premises or incite the students in violent activities;\n(j) raise funds without the sanction of the Director;\n(k) enter into monetary transactions with the students or parents.",
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"title": "13. Salaries of employees.",
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"content": "14.\nChapter V\nProvisions applicable to unaided minority schools",
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"title": "17. Contract of service.",
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"content": "(a) the terms and conditions of service of the employee, including the scale of pay and other allowances to which he shall be entitled;\n(b) the leave of absence, age of retirement, pension and gratuity or contributory provident fund in lieu of pension and gratuity and other benefits to which the employee shall be entitled;\n(c) the penalties which may be imposed on the employee for the violation of any Code of Conduct or the breach of any term of the contract entered into by him;\n(d) the manner in which disciplinary proceedings in relation to the employee shall be conducted and the procedure which shall be followed before any employee is dismissed, removed from service or reduced in rank;\n(e) settlement of any dispute arising out of any breach of contract between the employee and the managing committee with regard to:\n(i) the scale of pay and other allowances,\n(ii) leave of absence, age of retirement, pension, gratuity, provident fund and other benefits,\n(iii) any disciplinary action leading to the dismissal or removal from service or reduction in rank or imposition of any other punishment on the employee.\n(f) any other matter which, in the opinion of the managing committee, ought to be, or may be, specified in such contract.\nChapter VI\nAdmission to schools and fees",
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"title": "18. Admission to recognized schools.",
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"title": "19. Fees and other charges.",
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"content": "Chapter VII\nTaking over management of school",
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"number": "20",
"title": "20. Taking over management of school.",
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"content": "(i) has contravened any provision of this Act or of any rule or order made thereunder, or\n(ii) has neglected to perform any duty or obligation imposed on it by or under this Act, or\n(iii) has mismanaged the affairs of the school or has misappropriated or has misapplied any money standing to the credit of any Fund of the School, or\n(iv) has managed the affairs of the schools in a manner prejudicial to the public interest, or\n(v) has omitted or neglected to pay its share towards the medical facility, pension, gratuity, provident fund, and other prescribed benefits of the employees of the school, in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (2) of section 13, or\n(vi) has closed down the school or any class or section of the school in contra-vention of the rules made under this Act or any order, direction issued thereunder, or\n(vii) has made a written representation expressing its inability to run the school, and that it is expedient in the public interest or in the interests of school education or in order to secure the proper management of the school to take over the management of such school, he may, after giving the managing committee or the manager of such school a reasonable opportunity of showing cause against the proposed action, take over the management of such school for a limited period not exceeding three years:\n(a) the service conditions, as approved by the Administrator of the employees of the school who were in employment immediately before the date on which the management was taken over shall not be varied to their disadvantage;\n(b) all educational facilities which the school had been affording immediately before such management was taken over, shall continue to be afforded;\n(c) the School Fund, the School Staff Account Fund and the Pupils' Fund shall be made available to the authorized officer or authorized body, for being spent for the purposes of the school;\n(d) no resolution passed at any meeting of the managing committee of such school shall be given effect to unless approved by the Government; and\n(e) the authorized officer or the authorized body shall have the right to open any account in any bank or to draw money from any Fund referred to in section 10. No person in charge of the management of the school at any time before the date on which the management of the school is taken over under sub-section (1) shall have such right.",
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"number": "20",
"title": "21. Section 20 not to apply to unaided minority schools.",
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"content": "Chapter VIII\nAppeals and Offences",
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"number": "22",
"title": "22. Appeal.",
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"content": "(a) refusing to recognize a school under sub-section (2) of section 5;\n(b) withdrawing the recognition of a school under sub-section (3) of section 5;\n(c) stopping, reducing or suspending aid under sub-section (2) of section 7;\n(d) refusing to grant permission under sub-section (3) of section 9;\n(e) [dismissing, removing from service any employee or reducing him in rank or retiring him compulsorily or otherwise terminating his services under sub-sections (2), (2a), (4) and (4a) as the case may be, of section 11.]",
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"number": "23",
"title": "23. Offence and punishment.",
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"content": "(a) omits or fails, without any reasonable excuse, to carry out any order made by the Tribunal, or\n(b) causes or authorizes any student to be presented by the school for any public examination without complying with the provisions of section 8, or\n(c) omits or fails to deliver any school property to the Administrator or any officer authorized by him under sub-section (2) of section 20, or\n(d) contravenes any provision of the Act or any rule made thereunder, or\n(e) omits or fails to furnish any information to any inspecting authority or furnishes any information to that authority which is incorrect or false in material particulars, or\n(f) omits or fails to produce any book, register or other document to the inspecting authority, or\n(g) prevents any inspecting authority from entering into the premises of the school or from conducting any inspection or inquiry, he shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or with both.\nChapter IX\nMiscellaneous School Education Advisory Board",
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"number": "24",
"title": "24. Advisory Board.",
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"content": "(a) the Chairman of the Goa, Daman and Diu Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, ex officio;\n(b) three persons, who are the heads of recognized private schools;\n(c) [four] representatives of organizations of teachers of recognized private schools;\n(d) three representatives of the managements of recognised private schools;\n(e) the Director, who shall be the Secretary to the Advisory Board;\n(f) the Principal of one of the colleges in the Union territory;\n(g) two members of the Legislative Assembly of the Union territory to be nominated by the Speaker;\n(h) two eminent educationists;\n(i) two representatives of the parents and guardians of the students of recognized private schools; and\n(j) two representatives of the students of recognized private schools.",
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"number": "25",
"title": "25. Delegation of Powers.",
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"content": "",
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"number": "26",
"title": "26. Inspection of Schools.",
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"content": "(a) stoppage of aid,\n(b) withdrawal of recognition, or\n(c) except in the case of an unaided minority school, taking over of the school under section 20.",
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"number": "27",
"title": "27. Jurisdiction of Civil courts barred.",
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"number": "28",
"title": "28. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
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"number": "29",
"title": "29. Power to make rules.",
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"content": "(a) the manner in which education may be regulated by the Government in the Union territory;\n(b) the conditions which every existing school shall be required to comply;\n(c) establishment of a new school or the opening of a higher class or the closing down of an existing class in an existing school;\n(d) the form and manner in which an application for recognition of a school shall be made;\n(e) the facilities to be provided by a school to obtain recognition;\n(f) the manner in which, and the authority to which an appeal against the refusal or withdrawal of recognition shall be made;\n(g) the minimum qualifications for, and method of recruitment and the terms and conditions of service of employees;\n(h) the authorities to be specified for the purposes of the different provisions of this Act;\n(i) the particulars which a scheme of management shall contain, and the manner in which such scheme shall be made;\n(j) variations and modifications which may be made in the scheme of management for a recognized school which does not receive any aid;\n(k) the conditions under which aid may be granted to recognised schools, and on the violation of which aid may be stopped, reduced or suspended;\n(l) the part of the expenditure of a recognised school which is to be covered by aid;\n(m) particulars of school property which should be furnished to the appropriate authority;\n(n) the form in which, and the time within which, an appeal shall be preferred against an order made in relation to the transfer, mortgage or lien of any school property;\n(o) the Code of Conduct for the employees and the disciplinary action to be taken for the violation thereof;\n(p) the benefits which should be granted to the employees of recognised private schools;\n(q) admission to a recognised school;\n(r) fees and other charges which may be collected by an aided school;\n(s) the manner of inspection of recognised schools;\n(t) the term of office, travelling and other allowances payable to the members of the Advisory Board;\n(u) financial and other returns to be filed by the managing committee of recognised private schools, and the authority by which such returns shall be audited;\n(v) educational purposes for which the income derived by way of fees by recognised unaided schools shall be spent;\n(w) manner of accounting and operation of schools funds and other funds of a recognized private school;\n(x) fees, not exceeding one rupee, for preferring any appeal under this Act;\n(y) any other matter which is to be, or may be prescribed under this Act.\n[29A. Removal of doubts.",
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"title": "30. Power to remove difficulties.",
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