(1) Every citizen shall have the right of equal access to quality education. No one shall be discriminated on any ground to get education.
(2) Every Nepali community residing in Nepal shall have the right to acquire education in the mother tongue.
(3) For the purposes of sub-section (1), every citizen shall have the right to become literate, to get early childhood development and education, basic education, secondary education and higher education, pursuant to this Act or the prevailing law.
(4) Every citizen who has acquired education shall have the right to enter into, study, research, participate in examinations in and acquire educational certificate from any school or teaching institute, pursuant to this Act or the prevailing law.
(5) Every illiterate citizen shall have the right to become literate as prescribed.
(6) Every citizen shall have the right to get higher education according to his or her qualification, capacity and interest, upon fulfilling the conditions and standards referred to in the prevailing law.
(7) A citizen with disability shall also have the right to get education by means of special education.
(8) Citizen who are economically destitute, with disabilities and are Dalit shall have the right to get free higher education.
(9) The children of the martyrs, who have sacrificed their lives in the process of popular movement, armed struggle, revolution, of the disappeared persons, of conflict victims, of the wounded, of the persons with disabilities shall have the right to get special opportunity as prescribed.
(10) Every child shall have the right to get quality education from the qualified teacher as provided in the prevailing law.