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Facilities to fees, CBSE tells schools to make all info public -Manash Pratim Gohain

-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Having largely failed to nudge schools towards greater transparency by publicly disclosing their fee — for people to judge if it was commensurate with the facilities provided — the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is acting tough.

It has now made it mandatory for all schools across the country to make public information about their functioning under 130 heads. School managements are protesting against what they see as CBSE overstepping its authority and trampling on the autonomy of schools.

The order — no longer an advisory — to upload the disclosures on the school websites has not gone down well with them. In a memorandum issued on October 25, CBSE has asked for mandatory disclosures under six categories: general, management, infrastructure, staff, finance and other details. This covers an unprecedented wide range of information — from the number of taps to fee break-up, WiFi speed, admission results, reserve funds and balance sheets. The deadline for the disclosure is November 30, 2016.

This is part of the initiative announced earlier in September by the chairman of the Board, Rajesh Kumar Chaturvedi. In a circular as early as June, the CBSE had asked for fee and salary details to be uploaded but found that many schools had not even developed a website. The Board had threatened not to allow their students to appear for the board examinations.

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