Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
_(1) rTheappropriate authority may, on an application made to it in the prescribed form and in the prescribed manner, recognise any private school: . Provided that no school shall be recognised unless— (a) it has adequate funds to ensure its financial stability and regular payment of salary and allowances to its employees; (b) it has a duly approved scheme of management as required by section 5; (c)~ it has suitable or adequate accommodation and sani- ‘ tary facilities having regard, among other factors, to the number, age and sex of the pupils attending it; ((1) it provides for approved courses of study and efficient instruction; (e) it has teachers with prescribed qualifications; and (f) it has the prescribed facilities for physical education, library service, laboratory work, workshop practice or co-curricular activities. 5 , (2) Every application for recognition of a school shall be entertained and considered by the appropriate authority and the decision thereon shall be communicated to the applicant within a period of four months from the date of the receipt of the applica— tion; and where recognition isflngt granted, the reasons for not granting such recognition shall also be commnnicated to the applicant within the said period. _ ., . . (3) Where recognition to a school is refused, any person aggrieved by such refusal may, within thirty days from the date of communication to him, of such refusal appeal against such ' refusal appea1,against such refusal, in the prescribed manner, to the prescribed authority and thedecision of the prescribed authority thereon sham be final: V Providedhthat the prescribed authority may, if it is satisfied that the appellant'was prevented by sufficient cause from pre— ferring the appeal within the said period of thirty days, extend, ior reasons to be recorded by it in writing, the said period bya fiarther period of sixty days. p p , 7 (4) Where the managing committee of a school obtains trecognition by fraud, misrepresentation or suppression of material particulars, or where, after obtaining recognitibn, the school fails to continue to comply with any of the conditions spécified in the provision to sub-section (1), the authority granting the recognition may, after giving the managing committee of the school a rea— sonable opportunity to show cause as' to why the recognition granted to such school under shb—section (1) should not be with_‘- drawn,w1thdraWn the recognition. .1 1' * _3 ' (5) The recognition granted under sub-section(1)shall hat, by itself,entit1e any school to receiVe aid. ‘ §— (6) Every existing school shall be deemed to: havebeen recognised under this section and shall be subject to the provision$ of this Act and the rules made thereunder: . g ‘ Provided that where any such school doesnotsatisfy any of the conditions specified in the proviso to sub—section (1), the pres— cribed authority may require the school to satisfy such conditions and: such other conditions as may be prescribed, within aspecified period and if any such condition is not satisfied, recognitionmay be withdrawn from such school. , , T (7) Every sch'001,whose recognition is withdraiam 11nder sub-section (4) or, sub-section (6), may appeal to the prescribed authority, who shalldispose of the appeal within six months from the date- of presentation of the appeal in such manner as may be (a prescribed, and iftheappealis not disposed of ~withi11 that period, the order for the disposed of Within that period, the order_for the withdravsial of recognition shall, on the expiry of the said period of six months, stand cancelled. . (8) On hearing an appeal preferred under sub-Sect'rén sub-section (.7),the prescribed authority may, aftei" gi 6 Eppefiant a reasonabTe opportunity of being heard, confim medify or reverse the order appealed against. ‘ '5. '(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law £01? thetime being in force or in any instrument having effect by virtue of any such law, the managing committee oi every recog— _ nised school shall make, in accordance With the rules made under this Act and with the previous approval of the appropriate ' authority, a scheme of management for such school: ° Provided that in the case of a recognised private schoolwhich .. 3: does not receive any aid, the scheme of. management shall apply ' f with such variations and modifications as may be prescribed: oProyided further that so much (if this sub—section as relates to the previous approval of the-appropriate authority, shall not L apply to a scheme of management for an unaided minority school. (2.) A scheme may be made, in like manner, to add, to vary or modify any scheme made under sub-section (1).