law: Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009
  Chapter V: Curriculum
  
  and Completion of Elementary Education
  29. Curriculum and
  
  evaluation procedure.-
  1.  
  
    The
  
  curriculum and the evaluation procedure for elementary education shall be laid
  
  down by an academic authority to be specified by the appropriate Government, by
  
  notification.
  2.  The
  
  academic authority, while laying down the curriculum and the evaluation
  
  procedure under sub-section (1), shall take into consideration the following,
  
  namely:--
  a.  
  
    conformity
  
  with the values enshrined in the Constitution;
  b.  
  
    all
  
  round development of the child;
  c.  
  
    building
  
  up child's knowledge, potentiality and talent;
  d.  
  
    development
  
  of physical and mental abilities to the fullest extent;
  e.  
  
    learning
  
  through activities, discovery and exploration in a child friendly and
  
  child-centered manner;
  f.  
  
    medium
  
  of instructions shall, as far as practicable, be in child's mother tongue;
  g.  
  
    making
  
  the child free of fear, trauma and anxiety and helping the child to express
  
  views freely;
  h.  
  
    comprehensive
  
  and continuous evaluation of child's understanding of knowledge and his or her
  
  ability to apply the same