The purpose of study was to investigate and establish the impact of Free Primary Education in Zambia (advantages, disadvantages, challenges, opportunities etc.) in eastern province of Zambia, Chipata. The studies done in other countries have shown that this Free Primary Education is very good as it lays a good foundation for the development of the nation. This could have been due to a gap between the rich and the poor people that existed when time came to take their learners to school. The gap theory used in the study suggested that the poor parents would fail to take their children to school but the rich would do that without any problem. This could lead to many street kids, poverty, diseases, crime, early marriages, and underdevelopment and dependence syndrome in the country.

Free primary education comes as a solution to all these problems and helps bring equality in development and education in the nation. The problem of street kids is easily sorted out as children have easy access to education. Poverty and diseases, crime and early marriages are also prevented as children will be busy with school work and use their basic knowledge to do a lot of developmental activities like entrepreneurship that has been introduced and also just becoming responsible children who are well informed about their rights not to involve themselves in early marriages and crime.

The children learn a lot at primary level to make them self-dependent when they grow up and help develop the nation. In addition free Primary Education policy has the following advantages: reduced illiterate rate, prostitution, relationships, communication, community development, easy access to education, improved standard of education and brought economic development in the country just to mention but a few.

The researcher recommended that the government should do the following activities, the government should build many schools to cope with this increase in enrolments, should employ many teachers to cope with this increase in enrolments, should increase the funding to primary schools to meet the needs of the primary schools, should maintain the quarterly funding and give it on time to primary schools so that school managers can manage schools effectively, should employ qualified head teachers of the institutions to effectively use the funding and manage the school properly and should sensitise the chiefs on the dangers of early marriages and the importance of education to the subjects.