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The Income Tax Department has introduced various tax benefit schemes to promote the education and literacy benefit for the citizens. The schemes reduce the amount of taxable income and help in reducing the amount of tax payable. The Indian government has allowed tax exemption on the tuition fee paid. For some of the salaries, individuals payment of education fees is part of the salary structure. The government pays educational expenses of the government employees from the Children education allowance. The Central Pay Commission, established to provide r...

Adoption can be seen as taking up one's child and bringing it up as one's own. When it comes to adopt a child in India, it is an act to establish a person who is not a child's parent as a parent. It can be seen as a social, legal and emotional process through which a child not gets raised by birth parents but by his legal parents or foster parents who have adopted the child. The adopted child receives all the privileges, rights and responsibilities of adoptive parents. In India, the concept of child adoption is not new. The roots of adoption can be seen...

The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act is a comprehensive act that came into force in November 2012. The Ministry of Women and Child Development introduced the act. Commonly known as POCSO Act, the act deals with offences related to children. This act addresses heinous crimes and protects a child from sexual assault, sexual harassment and pornography. The enactment of this act increased the scope of reporting sexual crimes against children. The POCSO Act, 2012 lays down the punishment for exposing children to any kind of sexual offence. The...