The decision to form Delhi Board of School Education was taken in the cabinet meeting.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Saturday that Delhi will have its own school education board. The decision to form Delhi Board of School Education was taken in the cabinet meeting. The CM tweeted that the Delhi Board of School Education will bring a revolutionary change in the present education system and will take it to new heights.
The Chief Minister said while making the announcement that there are around 1,000 government schools and 1,700 private schools in Delhi and all government schools and most private schools are affiliated to the CBSE board. He said that some government schools will be made part of the new education board in the coming academic year and their present CBSE affiliation will be scrapped. The decision will be taken after discussing the matter with school principals, teachers and parents.
"The focus will not be on learning by rote. It will be on understanding (of concepts) and personality development," Mr Kejriwal said, adding that students will be assessed throughout the year and the education system will be based at par with international standards. Mr Kejriwal added that they hope to see all schools getting voluntarily affiliated to this board within four to five years."
In 2019, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who is also the state's Education Minister, had said the new board will not be a replacement for the CBSE but a next generation board to help students prepare for entrance examinations like Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) and the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for medical colleges, reported NDTV.
The new educational board will have a governing body, chaired by the education minister. It will also have an executive body headed by a CEO and both these sub-bodies will comprise of experts from the industry, education sector, principals of private and government schools, as well as bureaucrats, as per The Times of India.
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