Thiruvananthapuram: Schools seek nat’l status for CBSE

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala CBSE School Management Association has urged Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal to maintain the national character of CBSE-affiliated schools from all over India and abroad.
The Union government should be the appropriate authority to take action on this, said a memorandum submitted to him by association president T.P.M. Ibrahim Khan along with former union minister Alphons Kannamthanam and other office- bearers the other day.
The CBSE should be given the status of a natio-nal statutory body or constitutional body through legislation, they said.

As a policy, the importance of English language, especially communicative English, should not be reduced in the guise of promoting the mother tongue or local language. The decision taken at the meeting of the education secretaries of all states in 2017 in New Delhi should be strictly implemented in all the states to maintain the uniformity in the evaluation or granting grace marks or moderations to the students, it said.

A uniform procedure should be adopted by the state governments to issue recognition certificate in the case of all the schools for which NOC had been issued by the state government for affiliation to the CBSE. There was an inordinate delay in issuing recognition certificate by the state government. This resulted in delay in submitting the certificate for granting affiliation or extension of affiliation by the CBSE. This also led to fine or penalty on delaying schools, the memorandum said. The managements should be given proper representation in the governing body of the CBSE to enable them to submit their grievances and problems, it said.

The unaided affiliated independent schools, which are run either by charitable societies or trusts, should be given special consideration for their service in ensuring quality education.  The representatives of unaided independent schools which are affiliated to the CBSE should be consulted before enacting bylaws for running schools, the memorandum said.

Unaided recognised affiliated schools run either by registered charitable societies or trusts should be given the facility to establish NCC, ACC, Students Police Cadets, Scouts and Guides as in the case of aided and government schools. The insurance premium of school transportation vehicles should be reduced. They should not be treated as commercial vehicles since the accidents caused by them are much less compared to the others.

Instructions should be issued to the state government to help the schools to avoid massive migration to the state schools due to concessional marks, grace marks and moderation, the memorandum said.