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    "id": 16151,
    "slug": "the-chhattisgarh-primary-education-act-1961",
    "title": "The Chhattisgarh Primary Education Act, 1961",
    "short_title": "The Chhattisgarh Primary Education Act, 1961",
    "act_number": "C.G. Act No. 33 of 1961",
    "act_year": 1961,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Chhattisgarh",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Chhattisgarh Primary Education Act, 1961",
    "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 the State Government may, by notification, specify in respect of any specified area or for approved schools generally or any approved school or class of approved schools in particular;\n(b) \"approved school\" means any schools in any specified area imparting primary education which-\n(i) is under the management of the State Government or a local authority; or\n(ii) being under any other management, is recognised by the State Government as an approved school for the purpose of this Act;\n(c) \"attendance authority\" means any person appointed to be an attendance authority under Section 5 or Section 11;\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 time on each one of those days as may be fixed by the Prescribed Authority;\n(e) \"child\" means a boy or girl within such age group, not being less than six or more than fourteen, as the State Government may in each case specify for the purpose of this Act with respect to any specified area;\n(f) \"local area\" means the area within the jurisdiction of a local authority;\n(g) \"parent\" in relation to any child, includes a guardian and very person who has the actual custody of the child;\n(h) \"Primary education\" means education of such pattern and up to such class or standard as may be notified by the State Government from time to time;\n(i) \"region\" means the Mahakoshal Region, the Madhya Bharat Region, the Vindhya Padesh Region, the Bhopal Region or the Sironj Region;\n(j) \"special school\" means any institution witch imparts such primary education as in the opinion of the State Government is suitable for children suffering from any physical or mental defect;\n(k) \"Scheduled area \" means any area declared to be a scheduled area within the State of Chhattisgarh under Paragraph 6 of the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution of India;\n(l) \"specified area\" means any area in which primary education is declared to be compulsory under Section 4 or Section 9.\nPart II\nResponsibility of State Government for imparting free and compulsory Primary Education in certain regions",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
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        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Application of the Part.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) the regions in which immediately before the coming into force of this Act, primary education was provided for directly by the State Government;\n(ii) such other regions or part thereof as the State Government may, notification, extend the provisions thereof.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 2
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Primary education to be compulsory in certain areas.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) be published in the official Gazette and in such other manner as the State Government may decide;\n(b) be so made as to ensure that there is an interval of not less than one hundred and twenty days or such other interval as the State Government may, by notification, direct between the date of the publication of the order in the Official Gazette and the first day of the next academic year.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Appointment of Attendance Authorities and their powers and duties.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Attendance authority to notify parent of his obligation towards his child.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Part III\nOf responsibility of local authorities for imparting free and compulsory Primary Education",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Provisions contained in this Part not to apply in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Scheme for primary education.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the area in which the 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 purposes, classified by language in which instruction is given or 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": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Primary education to the compulsory in area covered by scheme.",
            "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 to ensure that there is an interval of not less than one hundred and twenty days or such other interval as the State Government may, by notification, direct between the date of publication of the declaration and the first day of the next academic year.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Duty of local authority to prepare lists of children.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Attendance authorities.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Attendance Authority to notify parent of his obligation towards his child.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Failure of local authority to prepare or implement scheme.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Grants-in-aid.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Part IV\nOf attending approved school and other ancillary matters",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Responsibility of parent to cause his child to attend school.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. 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 order under Section 4 or in the declaration under Section 9;\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": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Special schools for physically or mentally deficient children.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Special provision for part-time education in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Attendance orders.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) that he is no longer the parent in respect of the child; or\n(ii) that circumstances has arisen which provide a reasonable excuse for non-attendance; and thereupon the attendance authority may, after holding an inquiry in this prescribed manner, cancel modify the attendance order.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Children not to be employed so as to prevent them from attending school.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Leave of absence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Part V\nOffence and Penalties",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "22. Penalty for contravention of Section 19.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "23. Penalty for contravention of Section 20.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Courts who will try offences under the Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in rural areas to which the Panchayat law extends, the Nyaya Panchayats constituted under that law within whose jurisdiction the offence was committed;\n(b) in other areas, the Court of a Magistrate having jurisdiction.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Cognizance of offences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Part VI\nMiscellaneous",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Primary education to be free.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Age of child how to be computed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 26
        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Certain persons to be public servant.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 27
        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 28
        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Power of exemption.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 29
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Delegation of powers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. 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 education on a part-time basis or for the supply of good 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 Sections 5 and 10, the intervals at which the lists shall be kept revised and persons with whole assistance such lists shall be prepared;\n(d) the functions to be performed, and the manner in which such functions may be performed, by the 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 16;\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, statement 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": 31
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Repeal and Saving.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 32
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "cg050",
        "Act Number": "C.G. Act No. 33 of 1961",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1961",
        "Short Title": "The Chhattisgarh Primary Education Act, 1961",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Chhattisgarh"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}