Powers, duties and functions of district school boards.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act and tie rules made thereunder, tie district school board shall have control over all approved schools within the district and may grant aid to any approved school other than a primary school maintained by the State Government or by a school board or by an authorized municipality. (2) Sublet to the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder, and so far as its primary education fund will allow, the district school board shall perform the following duties and functions:— (a) to provide for the welfare of the children attending primary schools; (b) to maintain an adequate number of primary schools; (c) to provide adequate accommodation and equipment for primary schools; (d) to maintain an adequate staff of Assistant Administrative Officers, Supervisors, Attendance Officers, clerks, teachers, inferior servants and other staff as may in the opinion of the State Government be (dd) to maintain such number of Vidyasahayaks as may, in the opinion of the State Government or an authorised officer, as the case may be, be necessary; (e) to maintain an adequate number of engineering staff required for the construction and maintenance of schools and other buildings; (f) to determine, on the recommendation of the Administrative Officer, the distance measured according to the nearest road between an approved school and the residence of a child for purposes of clause (c) of section 33; (g) to determine with the approval of the Educational Inspector the hours of instruction and the number of duration of vacations; (h) to determine the exact location of primary schools; (i) to grant on the recommendation of the Administrative Officer exemption from attending an approved school to a child who is receiving instruction otherwise than in an approved school; (j) to sanction all tenders for the supply of forms, stationery, furniture or equipment; (k) to suggest the opening of additional schools for the sanction of the State Government; (l) to recommend to the Director such modifications in the curriculum as may seem necessary to suit local requirements; (m) to advise the State Government generally in respect of primary education within the district; (n) to carry on propaganda for the expansion of primary education; (o) to perform such other duties and functions as may be prescribed. (3) The district school board shall from time to time with the sanction or the Director make regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder for— (i) laying down the days, the time and the period on each day during which a child shall be present for instruction at an approved school; (ii) determining the constitution, powers and duties of the taluka advisory committees; (iii) the supply of books, slates, educational requisites, milk, meals or clothes to children of any age receiving primary education, if provision for such supply is made.