CBSE warns schools claiming false affiliation

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has issued a directive to schools warning them to refrain from wrongly claiming affiliation to the board lest they face disqualification for a period of two years.

If any school is found to be wrongly engaging in such practice, it will be barred from applying for affiliation for a period of two years, a highly placed source in the CBSE told Deccan Herald from New Delhi.

The directive, however, applies only to affiliation from class 6 onwards, the  according to the source. It applies to approval of middle classes’ syllabus, provisional affiliation up to secondary level and for upgrading to senior secondary level for 2015-16.

The directive holds great relevance for Bengaluru, especially in the wake of many cases of false affiliation claims discovered recently.

For example, the Orchid International School in Jalahalli was found to have wrongly claimed affiliation. This came to light following investigations of a rape in the school last year. The school had merely applied for affiliation but the CBSE had not granted the same.

Similarly, in November last year a number of parents staged a protest in front of the Narayan E-Techno School and PU College, Mallathahalli, when they suspected that the school was running without proper permission. It emerged that the school too had merely applied for affiliation to the CBSE. According to the CBSE’s affiliation by-laws, no school can claim affiliation to the board unless it is “granted” by the board. Merely applying for one does not make a school eligible for the affiliation.

Srinivasan M, president of Management of Independent CBSE Schools Association, Karnataka, which has as many as 230 CBSE affiliated schools under it, said that there were a number of schools in the State and the City which had flouted the rules with regard to affiliation. “Many of them have multiple branches. They take affiliation for one school but open 10 schools,” he said.