Section 3 in Tamil Nadu Compulsory Elementary Education Rules, 1998
3. Attendance at an elementary school.
- (i) The elementary school shall work for five days in a week and shall function for two hundred and twenty days in a year. Each child shall attend not less than seventy-five per cent of the total working days.(ii)For each working day the elementary school shall function for five hours, namely three hours in the forenoon and two hours in the afternoon. Normally the working hours shall be 9.30 a.m. to 12.40 p.m. with an interval often minutes with four periods of forty-five minutes each and 2-00 p.m. to 4.10 p.m. with an interval often minutes with three periods of forty minutes each.(iii)The working hours may be modified suiting the local conditions on getting permission from the District Elementary Educational Officer concerned. If the school is to work on shift system, the total working days in a week shall be six days and four hours in a day with six periods per day. The number of working days shall be two hundred and forty days. The shift system shall be resorted to only on extraordinary circumstances permitted by the District Elementary Educational Officer concerned.
