Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) (a) The Government shall endeavour to provide free and compulsory education for all children until they complete the age of fourteen years and to promote school education in the State by securing and maintaining the universal enrolment therefor of such children. The Government may also progressively provide for the medical inspection and care of children in the pre-primary and primary schools. (b) The Government may, for reviewing the progress made in that direction and for suggesting measures for the effective implementation thereof, appoint a committee immediately after the expiry of five years from the commencement of this Act and thereafter at the expiry of every fifth year. (2) (a) At the stage of pre-primary education children completing the age of 24[three years] but not completing the age of six years may be imparted education by the main method of informal learning effectively linking it with the health and nutrition programmes. (b) The Government may, as part of pre-primary education, provide for the attachment of pre-school centres to the existing primary schools in the State. (3) At the stage of primary education, the children completing the age of six years but not completing the age of fourteen years shall be imparted education and the curriculum and instruction of education shall be such as maybe specified by the competent authority so as to