CBSE: Now sections will be decided on the basis of the area of the school building, CBSE changed the affiliation rules..

CBSE: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has made important changes in its affiliation bye-laws and has now decided that the maximum number of sections that can be run in a school will be decided based on the built-up carpet area of the school.

According to CBSE Secretary Himanshu Gupta, the board was constantly receiving suggestions from schools and other stakeholders that the availability of land is very low in many areas. Due to this, schools face difficulty in starting additional sections even under the pressure of admission of new students, because in the existing rules, the limit of the section is fixed according to the size of the land.

That's why the rule was changed.

He said that many times it becomes difficult for schools to maintain the student-to-section ratio of 1:40, while the demand for new admissions remains constant. In such a situation, CBSE has decided that now schools will be allowed maximum sections on the basis of the total built-up area (carpet area) of their school building.

It will be mandatory to get this built-up area verified by the local body or a licensed architect. At the same time, the area of land will be used only to decide the category of the school, such as a branch school, a middle-level school, a secondary school, or a senior secondary school.

These changes have been made.

Under the new rules, schools will now be allowed an equal number of sections at secondary (class 9-10) and senior secondary (class 11-12) levels. Apart from this, the maximum number of sections at both these levels will be decided considering one-fourth of the total number of all sections running in the school from Balvatika to class 10 and 12.

This change will bring relief to those schools that want to admit new students even in limited land and were not able to do so due to the previously fixed limit. Now, permission to increase sections will be given based on the actual useful space of the building.

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