If you are sending your child to pre-primary classes, you are violating the Right to Education Act as well as the Child Rights Act. How, you ask? Here’s the answer: The Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MSCPCR) yesterday, while hearing cases of schools not admitting children under RTE, said law says education must be provided only after the age of six and questioned the existence of pre-primary sections in schools, as there is no such provision in any legislation.

The child rights panel further asked the schools to submit a response in writing about who gave them permission to run pre-primary sections when there is no such regulation. It then asked the state education department to submit a reply stating how are they allowing admissions in pre-primary sections. Both the schools and the education department have been asked to submit their replies within three days.