- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-(a)"Academic Session" means an annual session of the State Government/local body schools as directed by the State Government;(b)"Elementary education" means education from class 1st to class VIIIth;(c)"Gram Sabha" means Gram Sabha constituted under the Madhya Pradesh Panchayat Raj Avam Gram Swaraj Adhiniyam, 1993, (No. 1 of 1994);(d)"Jan Shiksha Yojana" means approved education plan of a habitation;(e)"Jan Shiksha Prabhari" means the headmaster of middle school to be designated as Jan Shiksha Kendra;(f)"Local body" means body constituted under the Madhya Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1956 (No. 23 of 1956) or the Madhya Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1961 (No. 37 of 1961) or the Madhya Pradesh Panchayat Raj Avam Gram Swaraj Adhiniyam, 1993 (No. 1 of 1994);(g)"Middle School" means the school where education from class VIth to class VIIIth is imparted;(h)"Panchayat" means Gram Panchayat, Janpad Panchayat and Zila Panchayat constituted under the Madhya Pradesh Panchayat Raj Avam Gram Swaraj Adhiniyam, 1993 (No. 1 of 1994);(i)"Primary School" means school where education up to class Vth is imparted;(j)"Parent Teacher Association" means association of the parents of the students enrolled in a school and teachers of that school.(k)"Teacher" means any member of the teaching staff of a school known by any name as approved by Government and duly appointed to teach in that school;(l)"School" means an educational institution imparting, wholly or partly, elementary education;(m)"Shiksha Mission" means State level society for elementary education and adult literacy, established by Government and registered under the Madhya Pradesh Societies Registrikaran Adhiniyam, 1973 (No. 44 of 1973);(n)"Education Committee" means the committee constituted for handling educational matters at the village level under the Madhya Pradesh Panchayat Raj Avam Gram Swaraj Adhiniyam, 1993 (No. 1 of 1994);(o)"Zila Yojana Samiti" means Zila Yojana Samiti (District Planning Committee) constituted under the Madhya Pradesh Zila Yojana Samiti Adhiniyam, 1995 (No. 19 of 1995).
