📚 Teacher Conducting Private Tuition
Teachers under the RTE Act are prohibited from conducting private tuition or private teaching activities.
What This Violation Looks Like
Why It Happens
Teacher salaries, while regularised in government schools, are often perceived as insufficient by teachers accustomed to earning supplementary income through tuition. The prohibition is widely ignored because it is rarely enforced and parents often feel they cannot complain for fear of retaliation against their children.
Legal Definition & Penalty
Section 28 of the RTE Act prohibits any teacher, appointed to a school covered under the Act, from engaging in private tuition or private teaching activity. This prohibition exists because teachers who conduct private tuition have a perverse incentive to teach inadequately in school to drive students to their paid classes.
Penalty — Section 28
Disciplinary action under applicable service rules
Additional consequence: If the teacher is using their school position to coerce students into private tuition, it may constitute a corruption offence under Prevention of Corruption Act.
Evidence to Collect
Before filing your complaint, collect:
How to Report This Violation
Document the tuition activity
Note the teacher's name, where tuition is conducted (address), fees charged, and names of students attending. Photographs of the tuition venue, if outside school, are useful.
File complaint with DEO
File a complaint with the DEO against the named teacher. Include the school name, teacher name, designation, and description of the tuition activity.
File with SCPCR if teacher is coercing students
If the teacher is actively pressuring students to attend tuition or discriminating against those who do not, this is an aggravated violation — file with SCPCR directly.
Request anonymous reporting
If you fear retaliation, you can file anonymously with the DEO or SCPCR. Mention in your complaint that you are filing anonymously and request confidentiality.
Who to Complain To
Complaint Template
To, The District Education Officer, [District Name], [State Name] Sir/Madam,I write to report a violation of Section 28 of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 by [Teacher Name], [Designation] at [School Name], [Address]. The said teacher is conducting private tuition at [location] for students of [School Name / general students], charging fees of approximately ₹[amount] per student per month. This is in direct violation of Section 28 which prohibits teachers from engaging in private tuition. [If applicable: Additionally, the teacher is pressuring students in their class to attend their private tuition, which creates a conflict of interest and an environment of coercion for students and parents.] I request: 1. An inquiry into this matter. 2. Direction to the teacher to immediately cease private tuition activities. 3. Disciplinary action under applicable service rules if the violation is confirmed.Yours faithfully, [Your Full Name / Anonymous] [Your Address if providing] [Your Mobile Number if providing] [Date]
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