Andhra Pradesh Right of Children to Free and Compulsory EducationRules, 2010

1. These Rules may be called the "Andhra Pradesh Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Rules, 2010".

Commencement

2. They shall come into force with effect from 1st April 2010.

Definitions

3. In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires –

• 'Act' means The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009.
• Anganwadi' means an Anganwadi Centre established under the Integrated Child Development Scheme of the Ministry of Women and Child Development of the Government of India
• “Mandal Educational Officer' means the officer responsible for implementing the programmes for elementary education at the mandal level.
• 'Collector' means the head of civil and revenue administration in the district.
• 'District' means a revenue district of the State.
• 'District Educational Officer' means officer responsible for implementing the programmes for elementary education at district level.
• 'Gram Panchayat 'means Gram Panchayat constituted under the Andhra Pradesh Panchayati Raj Act 1994.
• 'Mandal Resource Person' means resource teacher who coordinates academic activities in a cluster of schools
• 'Local authority' means, the mandal parishad / zilla parishad / municipalities as the case may be, in their respective jurisdictions for the purposes of the Act.
• 'Elementary School' means a school that imparts education between class I and class VIII. It includes all existing schools in Andhra Pradesh, namely, Primary, Upper Primary & High Schools having these classes.
• 'Neighborhood area of a school' means the habitations in a walking distance of 1 km for a Primary School, 3 kms for an Upper Primary / High School having classes VI to VIII.
• 'Primary school' means a school that imparts education between class I and class V.
• „Child‟ means any child male or female in the age group of 6 to 14 years and includes a child who has completed five years of age as on 1st September of the year of admission
• „Free Education‟ means and includes providing free textbooks, notebooks @ 1 notebook per subject and other writing material and midday meals in neighbourhood schools.
• 'Ward Member' means elected member of a ward of Gram Panchayat
• 'Councilor' means elected member of a ward of an urban local body
• „Corporator‟ means elected member of ward a of a Municipal Corporation within the limits of Andhra Pradesh or of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation
• 'Sarpanch' means elected head of the Gram Panchayat
• "School mapping" means planning school location to overcome social barriers and geographical distance and includes assessing availability of schooling facilities for elementary education based on certain fixed norms and standards in terms of location, infrastructure, teachers, distance matrix between one habitation and other habitations. It includes The GIS mapping of all the schools in Andhra Pradesh prepared by the Rajiv Vidya Mission (SSA), Andhra Pradesh
• 'State means the state of Andhra Pradesh
• 'State Government' means the Government of Andhra Pradesh
• All other words and expressions used herein and not defined but defined in the Act shall have the same meaning respectively assigned to them in the Act.
• “The Academic Authority under the Act” means The State Council for Educational Research and Training, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
• “The Implementing Authority of the Act” means the State Project Office, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, and it includes the Commissioner and Director of School Education, Andhra Pradesh.
• A Child belonging to socially disadvantaged group means and includes a child belonging to the schedule caste, schedule tribe, orphans, children with special need and HIV affected/infected children.
• A child belonging to Weaker Sections means a child belonging to BC, Minorities and includes OCs whose parents‟ income does not exceed Rs. 60,000/- Per annum.
• „Specified category‟ in relation to a school means the residential schools including KGBVs and Minority residential schools run by APREIS, APSWREIS, APTWREIS, Ashram Schools run by ITDAS, Sports schools run by SAAP in addition to Kendriya Vidyalaya, Navodaya Vidyalaya, Sainik School for the purposes of section 2(n) (IV) of the Act.
• „Walking Distance‟ means the distance covered by a child on foot from centre of his/her habitation to the school on the socially accepted path.
• „Out of School Child‟ means a child in the age group of 6-14 who has not completed elementary education (who is either never enrolled in the school or dropped out without completing elementary education). A pupil of an elementary school absent for more than one month shall also be considered to be an out of school child.

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