EDUCATION AND CULTURE

COMPULSORY EDUCATION

The Hyderabad Primary Education Act, 1952 was made applicable in October 1953 to all villages covered under the community development and twenty adjoining villages in Patoda tahsil. In 1955-56 the Act was further extended to twenty villages in Bhir tahsil. The Act covers children between the age group of 6 and 11 and not between 8 and 14 as promulgated in the Constitution of India.