Section 31 — Free education for children with benchmark disabilities.

THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, 2016

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.

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