No longer permanent affiliation for schools: CBSE

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will no longer give permanent affiliation to schools, which is what the board used to do till now. 

A circular has already been issued to 20,000 schools in this regard. The decision to not give permanent affiliations has been done to ensure greater accountability from schools, because some schools that got permanent affiliations did not go through regular inspections.  Some schools which are more prominent used to be given permanent affiliation. 

So far the provisional certificate is provided for a period of three years initially and later on it is extended for a period of 5 years, officials said. Without the affiliation of the board, schools will not be able to register their students for board exams. 

All schools, affiliated permanently with the board until so far, will now be treated as “provisionally affiliated” at par with other affiliated schools with the board amending its bye-laws to scrap the provision. 

The CBSE has notified the amendments made in its affiliation bye-laws with regard to scrapping of the provision for grant of permanent affiliation after its Governing board ratified the affiliation committee's recommendation for this recently.

“All schools affiliated permanently with the board will be considered as provisionally affiliated at par with other affiliated schools and will apply for extension of affiliation accordingly within the prescribed period with effect from the date of the issue of this notification,” the CBSE said in its notification on January 3.