Qualifications for appointment and terms and conditions of service of teachers…

The RTE Act, 2009 organizes its school-governance provisions into distinct numbered sections, each covering one specific administrative function — school development planning, teacher appointment qualifications, teacher duties, and pupil-teacher ratios are each assigned their own section under Chapter IV of the Act.

Section 23 of the RTE Act, 2009 is titled 'Qualifications for appointment and terms and conditions of service of teachers.' It empowers the appropriate academic authority to lay down the minimum qualifications required for teacher appointment, and it provides that a teacher's salary, allowances, and other terms and conditions of service shall be as prescribed. This is an exact match for the provision named in the question, so Section 23 is the answer.

• Section 22 covers the School Development Plan — the planning document a school must prepare for infrastructure and academic development — not teacher recruitment or service conditions.

• Section 24 covers teachers' duties (such as regular attendance and completing the curriculum) and the redressal of teachers' own service-related grievances — again, conduct and service matters after appointment, not the qualification criteria for appointment.

• Section 25 fixes the pupil-teacher ratio a school must maintain — a staffing-ratio norm, not a qualification or service-condition requirement for individual teachers.