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After Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation's success, will BMC follow?

While the NMMC has started its own CBSE schools, the BMC has plans of doing so through different trusts.

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Looking at the unqualified success that the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) has enjoyed with its plan of introducing the Central Board Secondary Education (CBSE) curriculum in civic-run schools, the big question is whether the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) follow suit.

But while the NMMC has started its own CBSE schools, the BMC has plans of doing so through different trusts. Only schools which have an empty building and no students can be given over to private trusts that can provide free education to students.

The BMC's education department has proposed that 35 of these BMC-run schools, which have remained shut due to inadequate numbers of students, should be handed over to private organisations to be run under the 'Public People Participation Programme', the education officer said.

Mahesh Palkar, BMC's education officer, said, "After the proposal was accepted, we will advertise it. If any trust wishes to run the schools, regardless of the curriculum, we will let them use empty BMC buildings to provide free education. We are also trying to start international schools once we get the affiliation from the Maharashtra International Education Board. We will apply for affiliation soon. Teachers will be brought in by the trust and the trust will also pay them. The principal will be from the BMC, mainly for administrative work, while we will also appoint a caretaker for the school."

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