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Bengaluru: CBSE revokes affiliation of six schools over minority status fraud

  • The Minority Status Certificate submitted by the school were all forged documents
  • The schools have been directed not to run Classes IX and XI under CBSE pattern with effect from 2017-18 session
CBSE withdraws affiliation schools Bengaluru Mysuru

After recommending criminal action against the schools run by the National Education Trust and allied trusts, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday disaffiliated six schools run by the trust in Bengaluru and Mysuru for using forged minority status certificate to bypass RTE requirements. 

 

Back in August, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) recommended a criminal case to be registered against the National Public School group of institutions in Bengaluru, accusing them of using fraud to dodge Right to Education (RTE) regulations. 

 

In a statement released here, the Board said that it has disaffiliated 6 schools run by National Education Trust and allied trusts at different locations in Bengaluru and Mysore.

 

The schools are namely National Academy for learning, Basweshwar Nagar, National Public School, Indira Nagar, Koramangala, Rajaji Nagar, 4th Sector HSR Layout of Bangalore and NPS International School, Vijayanagar located in Mysuru, Karnataka, CBSE said in a statement.

 

Also Read: National Public School fudges minority status to dodge RTE

 

The Board has taken this action on the complaints of Commissioner for Public Instruction, Department of Public Instruction, Government of Karnataka stating that National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions, the Minority Status Certificate submitted by the school were all forged documents and that the management of all six schools are indulging in fraudulent means in order to put exemption from the provisions of the RTE Act.

 

The students enrolled in class X and XII are permitted to appear in All India Secondary School Examination/All India Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination of the Board to be held in the year 2017 and 2018 after ascertaining their eligibility as per Examination Bye-Laws, CBSE said.

 

The schools have also been directed not to run Classes IX and XI under CBSE pattern with effect from 2017-18 session, it added. 

 

As per the RTE Act, 25% of the total seats available in a school has to be reserved for students from underprivileged and economically weak backgrounds. Such students cannot be charged capitation fees or donation and are admitted based on government reservation quotas. They can also not be failed or held back. The government of India will provide some compensation to private institutions for taking up these students, but their admission is compulsory.  
 


Institutions which are accorded a Minority Status are exempt from this requirement, which is otherwise compulsory for all private education institutions. 
 

 

However, National Public School has been accused of procuring fake documents and certificates to get itself the status of a minority institution, despite not meeting the criteria for the same.
 

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