competent authority will be sufficient.

Children belonging to economically weaker sections will

be those whose families are listed in the Below Poverty Line (BPL) lists at that particular time.
(2) The onus of admitting children of the specified categories to the extent of at least twenty- five
percent of the strength of a class (in class I or the pre-primary sections wherever existent) should be on
the managements of the private unaided schools.
(3) The Director will issue guidelines for such admission. (ANNEX-VI) Unaided Schools will be
eligible to get reimbursement of fees only if they adhere to these guidelines.
(4) Children admitted from these special categories whose fees will be reimbursed by the
government will not be required to pay any kind of fees to the school management even if
the actual school fees are higher than the reimbursed amount. The school management should
be required to give receipts to the special category children indicating the amount paid by government
to the school on their behalf, as fees.
(5) (i) Expenditure on books, writing materials uniforms and transport to be incurred for
these children will be borne the school management.
(ii) Government will provide these children free text-books. Where the text books differ
or are supplementary to the regular text books provided by government, the additional
expenditure of providing such text books is to be borne by the school management.

(iii) School uniforms are provided to disadvantaged children under various schemes of
Government. If a child is not covered by any such scheme, the school management
will provide uniforms wherever required.
(iv) Where schools provide midday meals to children on payment basis, Government will
reimburse cost for the special category children (whose regular fees are being reimbursed),
to the extent of government expenditure per child in the Mid-day Meal Scheme. Where the
unaided school does not have a scheme for mid day meals and children bring food from home or
buy it in canteen, Department should encourage special category children to bring food
from home and reimburse cost to parents on the same scale as mid day meal program.
(v) All expenses other than the ones specified above are to be borne by the school
management.
(6) Special training for the special category children is to be undertaken by the school
management to integrate them with other children. Teachers and the school management
should be sensitized for the proper integration of these children through professionally conducted
trainings.
(7) Under no circumstances should the special category children be discriminated against
regarding their access to infrastructure, co-curricular activities or in the behavior of
teachers, management and/or students. A serious contravention of this rule may lead to the
withdrawal of recognition.

6 Reimbursement of per-child expenditure by the State Government for the purposes of

section 11(2)
(1) The total annual recurring expenditure incurred by the State Government, whether from its own
funds, or funds provided by the Central Government or by any other authority, on elementary education
in respect of all schools established, owned or controlled by it or by the local authority, divided
by the total number of children enrolled in all such schools, shall be the per-child expenditure
incurred by the State Government.