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The Kerala Education Act, 1958

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This law establishes a framework for organizing and regulating primary and general education across the State of Kerala. It applies to government and private educational institutions, school managers, teachers, and parents of children aged six to fourteen. The statute standardizes educational courses, regulates teacher recruitment and working conditions, and restricts the unauthorized transfer of school properties. Crucially, it mandates free, compulsory primary education, ensures direct salary payments to teachers in government-aided institutions, and requires welfare provisions like free midday meals and clothing for poor students to boost statewide literacy, educational quality, and child welfare.

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  1. 1. Short title, extent and commencement
  2. 2. Definitions
  3. 3. Establishment and recognition of schools
  4. 4. State Education Advisory Board
  5. 5. Manager to send list of properties
  6. 6. Restriction on alienation of property of aided school
  7. 7. Managers of schools
  8. 8. Recovery of amounts due from the manager
  9. 9. Salary of teachers, etc., and grants to aided schools
  10. 10. Qualifications for appointment as teachers
  11. 11. Appointment of teachers in Government and aided schools
  12. 12. Conditions of service of aided school teachers
  13. 13. Absorption of teachers on retrenchment
  14. 14. Taking over management of schools
  15. 15. Power to acquire any category of schools
  16. 16. Power of Government to exempt immovable property from being taken over or acquired
  17. 17. Establishment of Local Educational Authorities
  18. 18. Functions of the Local Educational Authority
  19. 19. Recognised schools
  20. 20. No fee to be charged from pupils of primary classes
  21. 21. Application of the Part
  22. 22. Definitions
  23. 23. State to provide free compulsory education of children
  24. 24. Local Education Committee
  25. 25. Functions of Local Education Committee
  26. 26. Obligation of guardian to send children to school
  27. 27. Exemption from attendance
  28. 28. Warning for failure to discharge obligation and for interference
  29. 29. Penalty for employment of children or interference with their attendance at school
  30. 30. Noon-day meals, clothing, etc., to poor pupils
  31. 31. Inspection of offices, books and accounts of Local Education Committee
  32. 32. Indemnity
  33. 33. Courts not to grant injunction
  34. 34. Delegation of powers
  35. 35. Removal of difficulties
  36. 36. Power to make rules
  37. 37. Rules to be laid before the Legislative Assembly
  38. 38. Saving
  39. 39. Repeal

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