Definitions- Rule 2 - MEPS

Definitions- Rule 2 - MEPS

(a) " Act " means the Maharashtra Employees of Private Schools ( Conditions of Service ) regulation Act 1977 ( Mah .III of 1978 )

(b) " aided school " means a school which receives grant -in -aid either from Government or a local authority,but does not include a Primary school recognized by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay;

(c) " Chief Executive Officer " means the Secretary,Trustee,Correspondent or a person by whatever name called who is empowered to execute the decisions taken by the Management.

( d) " Directorate" means the Directorate of education or ,as the case may be,the Directorate of Technical Education,Maharashtra State

(e) " Education Officer" 

(i) in relation to a private secondary or higher secondary school or Junior college of Education in Greater Bombay,means an Educational Inspector,

(ii) in relation to a private primary school in the areas of any Municipal Corporation or Municipal Council,means the Education Officer or the Administrative Officer of a Municipal Corporation or a Municipal School Board ,as the case may be,and  

(iii) in relation to any private primary school in the areas elsewhere in the State of Maharashtra ,means an Education Officer in a Zilla Parishad.

(f) " Government" means the Government of Maharashtra:

(g) " Girls School " means a Schedule appended to these rules

(h) " Schedule" means a schedule appended to these rules:

(i) " School Committee" means a Committee constituted in accordance with the provisions of Schedule "A"

(j) "trained graduate" means a person possessing the qualifications mentioned in sub -clauses (i) to (vi) of clause (1) of item II in Schedule "B"

(k) "trained teacher" means a teacher who has secured a professional certificate , a diploma or a degree recognized by the department which qualifies him for teaching post in a school;

(l) " night school " means a secondary or higher secondary school which admits pupils who have completed eleven years of age and above,and which teaches the secondary or higher secondary school course for half the daily working hours of a day school to pupils who are unable by their daily avocations to attend day schools.

(2) Words and expressions used but not defined in these rules shall have the meaning respectively assigned to them in the Act.