CBSE Disaffiliates 20 Schools Across 10 States For Admitting Dummy Students. Details

The CBSE disaffiliated 20 schools on Friday for enrolling dummy students and ineligible candidates.

The CBSE disaffiliated 20 schools on Friday for enrolling dummy students and ineligible candidates. Representational Image.

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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) disaffiliated 20 schools on Friday for enrolling dummy students and ineligible candidates. According to the board's secretary, Himanshu Gupta, five of them are in Delhi and three are in Uttar Pradesh. The CBSE has also downgraded affiliation of three schools.

CBSE disaffiliates 20 schools after finding that these schools were committing various malpractices of presenting dummy students, ineligible candidates and not maintaining records properly: Himanshu Gupta, Secretary pic.twitter.com/HacgkTAJV4

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"Pursuant to the surprise inspection conducted in CBSE schools across the country to check whether the schools are running as per the provisions and norms contained in affiliation and examination bye-laws, it was found that some schools were committing various malpractices of presenting dummy students, ineligible candidates and not maintained records properly," Gupta said, as quoted by news agency PTI.

"After thorough inquiry, it has been decided to disaffiliate 20 schools and downgrade three schools," he added.

Five of the disaffiliated schools are in Delhi, three in Uttar Pradesh, two each in Kerala, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra, and one each in Jammu and Kashmir, Dehradun, Assam and Madhya Pradesh. The schools with downgraded affiliation are in Delhi, Punjab and Assam.

The disaffiliated schools include Sidhhartha Public School, Bharat Mata Saraswati Bal Mandir, National Public School, Chand Ram Public Senior Secondary School and Marigold Public School in Delhi, Loyal Public School (Bulandshahr), Trinity World School (Gautam Buddh Nagar), Crescent Convent School (Ghazipur) in Uttar Pradesh, Prince UCH Madhyamik Vidyalaya (Sikar) and Global Indian International School, (Jodhpur) in Rajasthan.

Dronacharya Public School and Vicon School in Chhattisgarh's Raipur, Rahul International School (Thane) and Pioneer Public School (Pune) in Maharashtra, Peevees Public School (Malappuram) and Mother Theresa Memorial Central School (Thiruvananthapuram) in Kerala, Sai RNS Academy in Assam's Guwahati, Sardar Patel Public School (Bhopal) in Madhya Pradesh, Kartar Public School (Kathua) in Jammu and Kashmir and Gyan Einstein International School (Dehradun) in Uttarakhand are also on the list.

The schools with downgraded affiliation are -- The Vivekanand School in Delhi, Sri Dasmesh Senior Secondary Public School in Punjab's Bhatinda and Sreeram Academy in Assam's Barpeta.

Last year, former Rajasthan CM also flagged the issue in the wake of a rising number of student suicides. Gehlot had referred to dummy schools as "fake schools".

"Students of classes 9 and 10 are enrolled in coaching institutes. You are committing a crime in a way. As if the IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) is the god. As soon as students come to these coaching institutes, they are enrolled in fake schools," the Congress leader had said, as quoted by PTI.