Where do existing State Acts on Education stand in relation to the RtE Act?
They would have to be brought in conformity with the Central Act. As per article 254 of the Constitution reproduced below, a State Act cannot violate the provisions of the Central Act in a concurrent subject. States could amend such a Central Act, but that would require presidential assent. However, if the State Act contains anything on which the Central Act is silent, then that may remain as a part of the State Act. 254. (1) If any provision of a law made by the Legislature of a State is repugnant to any provision of a law made by Parliament which Parliament is competent to enact, or to any provision of an existing law with respect to one of the matters enumerated in the Concurrent List, then, subject to the provisions of clause (2), the law made by Parliament, whether passed before or after the law made by the Legislature of such State, or, as the case may be, the existing law, shall prevail and the law made by the Legislature of the State shall, to the extent of the repugnancy, be v
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