MHRD Ministry has introduced some major reforms in the CBSE affiliation process for the new schools. The Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Prakash Javadekar made the announcement regarding the changes. One of the major changes introduced involves moving the entire process online for more transparency.
Addressing the media personnel regarding the same Javadekar said ‘there are currently 20,700 schools affiliated with CBSE in the country and every year the board receives 2000 to 2500 applications for opening new schools.’
He also said that NOC inspection which was earlier part of the affiliation process has been removed. Now, schools who want to apply for the affiliation will have to get NOC from the district education officer, who will inspect the infrastructure of the school. After the NOC is done, CBSE will do another inspection to check the learning outcomes.
Javadekar said this was done to remove the unnecessary duplicate work at the state and central level and CBSE will only inspect the parameters related to the academics.
He further told that CBSE is asking the schools to give undertakings on very vital matters such as inclusion of sports in schools, disclosing the entire fee structure, etc. Schools are required to provide undertaking on all these matters and those who fail to abide by the rules will lose their CBSE affiliation.
He also said that schools cannot ask the students to buy books and uniforms from a particular vendor.
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