Ensure Maximum Attendance for PM Modi's 'Pariksha Pe Charcha' or Lose Affiliation: CBSE to Schools
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 20 March 2024 | The Telegraph
The Central Board of Secondary Education tacitly threatened some of its schools with discontinuing their affiliation if they failed to ensure the “maximum possible” registration of students, parents and teachers for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest Pariksha Pe Charcha programme. Registrations for this year’s Pariksha Pe Charcha — held on January 29, weeks before the general election — skyrocketed to 2.26 crore from last year’s 38 lakh, government figures show.
The CBSE’s regional office in Bhubaneswar sent emails to the principals of several schools in Odisha in the first week of January expressing displeasure at what it felt was poor registration of participants by them. Issued by Lalit Kumar Himanshu, CBSE undersecretary, Bhubaneswar, the letter said low registration by a school “may result in difficulties” for the extension of its affiliation…