The U.T. Administration of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu (DNHDD), on June 8, 2026, notified the Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu School Education Rules, 2026 under the Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu School Education Act, 1984. The Rules have been finalised after the draft was published for public consultation and no objections or suggestions were received within the prescribed period. The Rules came into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
The Rules establish a comprehensive framework for regulation of school education in the Union Territory, including classification of schools, educational stages aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020, regulation of educational blocks and clusters, teacher definitions, recognition of schools, and governance of pre-primary, primary, middle, secondary, higher secondary, vocational and teachers' training institutions.
The Rules also provide for free education for children up to 14 years of age, adoption of the NEP 2020 language policy, protection of the rights of linguistic minorities to establish schools, and establishment of facilities such as adult education centres, Balvatikas/Anganwadis, literacy centres, village libraries, resource centres, and programmes for out-of-school children, thereby creating a unified regulatory framework for school education in the Union Territory.
[Notification No. DE/ADM/GD&D/DNH/New Rules/2026-27/1566]
