Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009

Chapter III: Duties of Appropriate Government, Local Authority and Parents 

6. Duty of appropriate Government and local authority to establish school.-

For carrying out the provisions of this Act, the appropriate Government and the local authority shall establish, within such area or limits of neighbourhood, as may be prescribed, a school, where it is not so established, within a period of three years from the commencement of this Act.