(i) Physical education :
(a) suitable playground for the purposes of games, sports, and materials for such games and sports;
(b) where no such playground is available due to the location of the school in an area where no suitable open space is available, the school shall make arrangement for a playground in a nearby area where students could be provided the facilities for games and sports;
(c) where no such arrangement as is referred to in clause (b) is possible, the school shall make arrangements for gymnastics or any other physical exercise;
<ii) Library service :
(a) (i) adequate library facilities, in the case of primary school, and
(ii) in the case of any other school, a separate room for the Library, to be used exclusively for the purpose and on no account such room shall be considered as accommoda tion available for class-teaching;
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(b) a reading room attached or adjacent to the library, wherever possible;
(c) the library has a stock of books specified by the Director as also books specified by the Affiliating Board and such other books as may meet the needs of the students and of the teachers;
(d) the library has also books suitable for the use of teachers in their professional work and reference work;
(iii) Laboratory work :
(a) in the case of a school up to the middle level, a laboratory for teaching science, equipped according to such specifications as may be laid down from time to time, by the appropriate authority;
(b) in the case of a school above the middle level, intending to run either science course or courses in subjects which involve practical work, accommodation, equipment and apparatus according to such specifications as may be laid down, from time to time, by the Affiliating Board or the Director for the laboratory for each subject;
(iv) Workshop practice :
(a) a room or a workshop for conducting workshop practice or such other vocational activities as may be specified by the appropriate authority for different classes;
(b) the workshop is equipped according to such specifications as may be laid down, from time to time, by the appropriate authority for each subject;
(v) Co-curricular activities :
As many co-curricular activities, as may be possible, so as to give to every student an opportunity of participating in one or more of the following activities, namely :
(a) debates;
(b) recitation or elocution;
(c) dramatics;
(d) music (including folk songs), dancing (including folk dances);
(e) hobbies of different types;
(f) model parliament;
(g) house system;
(h) prefectorial system;
(i) class competition;
(j) junior wing of the National Cadet Corps;
(k) scouting and guiding;
(1) activities providing for social service; and
(m) any other co-curricular activity.
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52. Power to grant exemption— The appropriate authority may, for good and sufficient reason, exempt provisionally any private school seeking recogni tion from one or more of the provisions of rule 50 or rule 51 or both for such period as it may consider necessary, provided that the appropriate authority is satisfied that the school will be in a position to fulfil in the near future, the requirements from which it is provisionally exempted.
53. Date of recognition— The recognition given to a school shall be effective from the date decided upon by the appropriate authority and ordinarily recogni tion shall be given from the date of commencement of the school year.
54. Recognition to lapse if not availed of within a year— (1) The recog nition granted to a school shall lapse unless it is availed of within a year from the date on which it is to be effective.
(2) '[* * * * * * * * *I
Provided that no recognition shall be renewed unless an application for such renewal has been made, in Form 1, not less than six months before the date on which the recognition is to expire and unless the school continues to fulfil the conditions specified in sub-section (1) of section 4, and rule 50 :
Provided further that the appropriate authority may, on sufficient cause being shown by the managing committee of the school, relax the time-limit for making an application for the renewal of recognition.
55. Lapse of recognition in other cases—(1) If a recognised school ceases to function or is shifted to a different locality or is transferred to a different trust, society, individual or a group of individuals without the previous approval of the appropriate authority, its recognition shall lapse on such ceaser, shifting or transfer, as the case may be, and it shall, for the purpose of future recognition, be treated, as a new school.
(2) Where one or more of the conditions of recognition, specified in sub section (1) of section 4 or in rule 50, are not complied with by any recognised school, :[the appropriate authority shall], by a written notice, draw the attention of thG school to such non-compliance; and, if within '(sixty] days from the date of service of such notice, any such condition for the recognition is not complied with, the recognition granted to such school shall, on the expiry of the said period of "(sixty days], stand lapsed.
56. Suspension or withdrawal of recognition— (1) If a school ceases to fulfil any requirement of the Act or any of the conditions specified in rule 50 or fails to provide any facility specified in rule 51, the appropriate authority may, after giving to the school a reasonable opportunity of showing cause against the proposed action, withdraw for reason to be recorded in writing, recognition from the school:
1. Omitted by DSE(A>R, 1990, R. 12.
2. Subs, by DSE(A)R. 1990, R. 13(B).
3. Subs, by DSE<A)R, 1990, R. 13(.i).
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Provided that where the appropriate authority is satisfied that the deficien cies or defects are capable of immediate or early removal, it may, instead of withdrawing the recognition suspend the recognition for such period as it may think fit to enable the managing committee of the school to remedy the deficien cies or defects to the satisfaction of the appropriate authority :
Provided further that where the recognition of a school has been withdrawn or suspended, no appropriate authority shall grant recognition of such school whether run by the name by which it was known at the time of such withdrawal or suspension or by any other name, unless the school has removed the deficien cies or defects for which the recognition has been withdrawn or suspended.
(2) A recognised school which provides for hostel facilities shall comply with the provisions of rule 39 and the instructions made thereunder, and in case of any default in complying with such provisions or instructions, the appropriate authority may for reasons to be recorded in writing, withdraw the recognition in relation to the school itself.
(3) Where recognition of any school is withdrawn, the reasons for with drawal of such recognition shall be communicated to the managing committee within seven days from the date on which the recognition is withdrawn.
(4) Any managing committee aggrieved by the withdrawal of recognition of the school managed by it may, within thirtv davs from the date of communication to it of the withdrawal of recognition, prefer an appeal against such withdrawal to the authority specified in rule 58.
57. Restoration of recognition— Recognition once withdrawn or lapsed shall not be restored until the appropriate authority is satisfied that the reasons which led to the withdrawal or lapse of recognition have been removed and that in all other respects the school complies with the provisions of the Act and the rules made thereunder.
58. Authorities to which appeals may be preferred— (1) Every appeal against refusal by the appropriate authority to accord recognition to a school or withdrawing recognition from an existing school shall be preferred to the fol lowing authorities, namely :—
(a) 'where' the appropriate authority is an authority designated or sponsored by the Central Government, to that Government;
(b) where the appropriate authority is the Administrator, to the Central Government;
(c) where the appropriate authority is an officer authorised by the Administrator, to the Administrator;
(d) where the appropriate authority is a local authority, to the Administrator.
(2) Every such appeal shall be made in writing and shall be accompanied by a copy of the reasons for the refusal to accord recognition or withdrawal or recognition, as the case may be, communicated to the appellant:
40 The Delhi School Education Act & Rides, 1973 '[Provided that every such appeal shall be made in writing within a period of thirty days from the date of the receipt of such communication].
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