Section 27
School With Private Investment To Be Service-oriented
(1) Any school with private investment shall operate early childhood development and education and the basic education to make it service-oriented and public welfare.
(2) The detailed provisions to make the schools with private investment service-oriented and public welfare shall be as determined by the Government of Nepal.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the prevailing law, every school with private investment and school operated under the public educational trust shall make reservation of the seats to provide free education for the students, as follows, of total number of students from early childhood development and education up to grade twelve, on the basis of the number of students of such a school:
(a)At least ten percent by the school which has students up to five hundred,
(b)At least twelve percent by the school which has students from five hundred to eight hundred,
(c)At least fifteen percent by the school which has students more than eight hundred.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2), the scholarship which is being provided by any school at the time of the commencement of this Act must not be reduced.
(5) Qualified and capable children shall be admitted to the seats reserved pursuant to sub-section (2) on the ground of competition among the groups prescribed, in accordance with the selection procedures as adopted.
(6) The facilities to be provided by the schools with private investment for the children admitted upon being selected for the reserved seats pursuant to sub-section (1) shall be as prescribed.
(7) The students who study free of charge upon being selected pursuant to sub-section (2) to the reserved seats referred to in sub-section (1) shall be allowed to apply for the sake of free study or for acquiring scholarship pursuant to the prevailing law for the grade or level higher than the grade he or she has acquired free education.