law: Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009
  2. Definitions.-
  In this Act, unless the context otherwise
  
  requires,--
  a.  
  
    "appropriate
  
  Government" means--
   
  
   i.  
  
    in
  
  relation to a school established, owned or controlled by the Central
  
  Government, or the administrator of the Union territory, having no legislature,
  
  the Central Government;
   
  
   ii.  
  
    in
  
  relation to a school, other than the school referred to in sub-clause (i),
  
  established within the territory of--
  A.  
  
    a
  
  State, the State Government;
  B.  
  
    a
  
  Union territory having legislature, the Government of that Union territory;
  a.  
  
  
  b.  
  
    "capitation
  
  fee" means any kind of donation or contribution or payment other than the
  
  fee notified by the school;
  c.  
  
    "child"
  
  means a male or female child of the age of six to fourteen years;
  d.  
  
    "child
  
  belonging to disadvantaged group" means a child belonging to the Scheduled
  
  Caste, the Scheduled Tribe, the socially and educationally backward class or
  
  such other group having disadvantage owing to social, cultural, economical,
  
  geographical, linguistic, gender or such other factor, as may be specified by
  
  the appropriate Government, by notification;
  e.  
  
    "child
  
  belonging to weaker section" means a child belonging to such parent or
  
  guardian whose annual income is lower than the minimum limit specified by the
  
  appropriate Government, by notification;
  f.  
  
    "elementary
  
  education" means the education from first class to eighth class;
  g.  
  
    "guardian",
  
  in relation to a child, means a person having the care and custody of that
  
  child and includes a natural guardian or guardian appointed or declared by a
  
  court or a statute;
  h.  
  
    "local
  
  authority" means a Municipal Corporation or Municipal Council or Zila
  
  Parishad or Nagar Panchayat or Panchayat, by whatever name called, and includes
  
  such other authority or body having administrative control over the school or
  
  empowered by or under any law for the time being in force to function as a
  
  local authority in any city, town or village;
  i.  
  
    "National
  
  Commission for Protection of Child Rights" means the National Commission
  
  for Protection of Child Rights constituted under section 3 of the Commissions
  
  for Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005 (4 of 2006);
  j.  
  
    "notification"
  
  means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
  k.  
  
    "parent"
  
  means either the natural or step or adoptive father or mother of a child;
  l.  
  
    "prescribed"
  
  means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
  m.  
  
    "Schedule"
  
  means the Schedule annexed to this Act;
  n.  
  
    "school"
  
  means any recognised school imparting elementary education and includes--
   
  
   i.  
  
    a
  
  school established, owned or controlled by the appropriate Government or a
  
  local authority;
   
  
   ii.  
  
    an
  
  aided school receiving aid or grants to meet whole or part of its expenses from
  
  the appropriate Government or the local authority;
   
  
   iii.  
  
    a
  
  school belonging to specified category; and
   
  
   iv.  
  
    an
  
  unaided school not receiving any kind of aid or grants to meet its expenses
  
  from the appropriate Government or the local authority;
  a.  
  
  
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  f.  
  
  
  g.  
  
  
  h.  
  
  
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  j.  
  
  
  k.  
  
  
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  n.  
  
  
  o.  
  
    "screening
  
  procedure" means the method of selection for admission of a child, in
  
  preference over another, other than a random method;
  p.  
  
    "specified
  
  category", in relation to a school, means a school known as Kendriya
  
  Vidyalaya, Navodaya Vidyalaya, Sainik School or any other school having a
  
  distinct character which may be specified, by notification, by the appropriate
  
  Government;
  q.  
  
    "State
  
  Commission for Protection of Child Rights" means the State Commission for
  
  Protection of Child Rights constituted under section 3 of the Commissions for
  
  Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005 (4 of 2006).