The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 · III — DUTIES OF APPROPRIATE GOVERNMENT, LOCAL AUTHORITY AND PARENTS

Section 7. Sharing of financial and other responsibilities

In force · As amended up to 2026-08

CHAPTER III DUTIES OF APPROPRIATE GOVERNMENT, LOCAL AUTHORITY AND PARENTS — 6. Duty of appropriate Government and local authority to establish school. For carrying out the provisions of this Act, the appropriate Government and the local authority shall establish, within such area or limits of neighbourhood, as may be prescribed, a school, where it is not so established, within a period of three years from the commencement of this Act. 7. Sharing of financial and other responsibilities.— (1) The Central Government and the State Governments shall have concurrent responsibility for providing funds for carrying out the provisions of this Act. (2) The Central Government shall prepare the estimates of capital and recurring expenditure for the implementation of the provisions of the Act.

Source: India Code