2[(1) No school shall be granted aid unless its managing committee gives an undertaking in writing that:
(a) it shall comply with the provisions of the Act and these rules;
(b) it shall fill in the posts in the school with the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes candidates in accordance with the instructions issued by the Central Government from time to time and also maintain the roster and other connected returns in this behalf;
1. Ins. by DSE(A)R, 1990, R. 15(b)(iii).
2. Subs, by DSE(A)R 1990, R. 16.
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(c) it shall deposit its five percent share towards pay and allowances, medical facilitates, pension, gratuity, provident fund and other pres cribed benefits with the Administrator every month;
(d) it shall disburse or cause to be disbursed the dues maintained in clause (c), within the first week of every month to the employees of the school;
(e) while filling up the posts in the school, it shall give first preference to such of the employees of other aided schools as have become surplus in pursuance of the provisions of rule 47;
(f) it shall comply with the directions given by the Director under sub section (3) of Section 24 of the Act;
(g) it shall fill in such number of posts in the school as have been approved by the Director, in accordance with the post fixation in pursuance of rule 75, without any discrimination or delay as per the Recruitment Rules prescribed for such posts;
(h) it shall ensure that the head of the school possesses the necessary papers of an employee who is due to retire from service after attaining the age of superannuation or otherwise, with a view to avoid any delay in sanctioning the pension, gratuity, provident fund to such employee of his/her family, as the case may be; and
(i) it shall attend to all the claims of the service matters of the employ ees of its school as and when they become due, promptly without any delay or discrimination, strictly in accordance with the Recruit ment Rules or the instructions issued by the Central Government from time to time on the subject
(2) The breach of any constitution specified in sub-rule (1) shall render such school liable to be removed from the grant-in-aid list.]
65. Conditions for grant-in-aid— A school seeking grant-in-aid shall have—
(a) a permanent income, whether from endowments or other sources (excluding fees and the Pupils Funds) which, when supplemented by grant-in-aid, shall be adequate to discharge its obligations under the Act and to enable it to carry on its work efficiently;
(b) a reserve fund of an amount which shall not be less than the amount indicated in the Table below or the amount specified by rules and regulations of the Affiliating Board, whichever is higher :
Provided that the amount specified in the Table below shall be subject to review, every five years, by the Advisory Board;
(c) the reserve fund shall be the property of the school, shall be main tained in its name and shall be kept deposited in a scheduled bank or a nationalised bank or a post office and such account shall The Delhi School Education Rules, 1973 47 ordinarily be operated jointly by the Director or any officer authorised by him in this behalf and the manager of the school:
Provided that where it is urgently necessary to draw any money from the reserve fund to meet any emergent expenditure or to meet the salary and allow ance of the employees of the school in the event of the omission or failure of the managing committee to discharge the obligations imposed upon it by sub-section
(2) of section 10, the account may be operated by the Director alone.
Table Scale of minimum obligatory reserve fund 'ISenior Secondary Schools/Secondary schools) having up to 500 students Rs. 10,000 '(Senior Secondary Schools/Secondary schools) having 501 to 750 students Rs. 12,000 '(Senior Secondary Schools/Secondary schools) having 751 to 1000 students Rs. 15,000 '(Senior Secondary Schools/Secondary schools] having more than 1000 students Rs. 20,000 Middle schools, irrespective of the number of students Rs. 5,000
66. No grant-in-aid for unqualified staff—(1) In order to be eligible receive grant-in-aid, a school shall employ adequate number of qualified teaching and other staff as approved by the Director under the norms of post fixation or as has been specified by him from time to time.
(2) Save as otherwise provided in sub-rule (5) of rule 98, the pay of unquali fied teachers shall not be an admissible charge for the assessment of grant-in-aid for the school unless an exemption has been made by Director in this behalf.
67. Enrolment and attendance— The number of students on the rolls on an aided school shall not fall below the number on the basis of which aid was initially granted to such school, and the number of working days of such school shall not fall below 210 in a year; and where the number of students fall, below seventy-five per cent of the first mentioned number or the number of working days falls below 210, a proportionate reduction may be made in the grant-in-aid payable to such school.
68. Grant-in-aid for a stage of education— Where a school receiving grantin-aid for classes, comprising one stage wishes to secure grant-in-aid for another stage, the managing committee or the manager of such school submit a fresh application in respect of the stage for which such grant is desired.
69. Stoppage, reduction or suspension of grant-in-aid— 2[Subject to the provisions of rule 65 any grant-in-aid to a school may be stopped, reduced or suspended at any time by the administrator—
(a) if one or more of the conditions for the recognition, discipline, organisation or instructions in school is unsatisfactory; or
(b) if the managing committee of the school fails, without any reasonable excuse, to comply with any provisions of the Act or these rules; or
1. Subs, by DSbiAJR, 1990, R. 17.
2. Subs, by DSE(A)R.1990, R. 18.
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(c) if, as a result of lack of discipline, the academic standards are likely to be adversely affected; or
(d) if one more of the conditions for the recognition of school or the grant of any aid to a school have been violated;
(e) if the managing committee of the school fails to initiate or finalise disciplinary action against an employee who has been placed and or suspension, pending contemplation of such disciplinary action, in accordance with the provisions of rule 118 and 120 within a period of one year of the date of suspension; or
(f) if the procedure as laid down under sub-section (3) of section 8 of the Act or rule 118 or 120 have not been followed in the case of termination or dismissal from service of an employee or in the case of compulsory retirement or reduction in rank of an employee, notwithstanding that any or such employee is reinstated in service or restored to his original position as a result of the decision of the Court of Law or any Competent Authority.
Provided that no aid shall be stopped, reduced or suspended except after giving to the managing committee of the school a reasonable opportunity of showing cause against any of the proposed action .]