Section 31. Free education for children with benchmark disabilities
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Act
Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016
Section number
31
Section reader
Chapter VI
Special Provisions for Persons with Benchmark Disabilites
31. Free education for children with benchmark disabilities:-
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Rights of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (35 of 2009), every child with benchmark disability between the age of six to eighteen years shall have the right to free education in a neighbourhood school, or in a special school, of his choice.
(2) The appropriate Government and local authorities shall ensure that every child with benchmark disability has access to free education in an appropriate environment till he attains the age of eighteen years.
