Practice Set 3 — Rules, Rights & Financial Regulation

Statements I and II are correct: Section 32 of the RPwD Act, 2016 requires government institutions of higher education, and other higher-education institutions receiving government aid, to reserve not less than ★5 per cent of seats for students with benchmark disabilities and to give an upper age relaxation of ★five years for admission. Statement III is false, since the Act mandates inclusive education in shared classrooms, not a separate curriculum or separate examinations. (Section 32 is about higher education; it creates no school-seat quota.) (b) carries the false statement III; (c) also carries III; (d) accepts all three and repeats that error.

A is true: the Directorate closely tracks the Class VIII to IX transition rate. R is true and explains it: Class VIII closes the elementary stage the RTE Act, 2009 guarantees, and the move into Class IX is where failure and dropout show up school by school, pointing to where academic intervention is needed. (Since the 2019 amendment of Section 16, Delhi can also hold children back in Classes 5 and 8, so Class IX is no longer the first point at which a child can fail.) (b) is wrong because R is the reason for the monitoring; (c) is wrong because R is accurate; (d) is wrong because A is accurate.

Statements I, II and III are correct: Section 3 as amended in 2019 provides for ★three Members with knowledge of or practical experience in human rights, of whom at least one shall be a woman, and makes the Chairpersons of the National Commission for Backward Classes and of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights deemed Members. Statement IV is wrong, the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities also being a deemed Member. (b) retains that false statement IV; (c) retains it and additionally discards the correct composition in statement I; (d) treats all four as correct.