CBSE won’t allow changes in registration data

NEW DELHI: Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has issued strict guidelines to its affiliated schools to ensure error-free registration of classes IX and XI students. From this year, the board has decided not to let students update any data submitted in the hard copy of the registration form.
If there is any error, it will be the responsibility of the school, CBSE has said.
“Schools are required to send the signed copy of the finalised data of registration of classes IX/XI only to CBSE’s regional office concerned,” a circular stated. The schools should take utmost care to upload the data correctly, it added.
The schools have also been asked to write the full name of the candidates and the parents/guardians. “Abbreviations should be avoided as they create problems for the students in future,” the circular pointed out.
This guidelines have been sent as students often request CBSE to make corrections/changes in their personal data after passing the classes X and XII exams. According to the circular, “Their requests are usually based on various excuses. These requests are quite difficult to accept by the schools as well as by CBSE as these can lead to the creation of a new identity.”
The schools have also been asked to ensure that the CBSE rules are followed in the true sense for the registration, and in the availability of classrooms and the teachers. “In a section, 40 students are allowed, and the pupil-teacher ratio is 1:30. Further, the number of sections in a class cannot exceed the number permitted by the board,” added the circular.
This year, the process of registration has started early to avoid rush.