Bengaluru: National Public School rushed to reassure thousands of parents and students on Tuesday after the Central Board of Secondary Education withdrew its affiliation to six NPS branches in Karnataka.
The CBSE sent the communication to the state education department and respective schools on Tuesday morning where the board states that the CBSE has disaffiliated six schools run by the National Education Trust and allied trusts at different locations in Bengaluru and Mysuru.
The schools that have been put on notice are National Academy for Learning, Basaveshwarnagar, National Public School, Indiranagar, Koramangala, Rajaji Nagar, HSR Layout 4th Sector of Bengaluru and NPS International School, Vijayanagar in Mysuru.
The Board took the decision following complaints filed by the Commissioner for Public Instruction that the Minority Status Certificates submitted by the school are forged and that the management of all six schools are indulging in fraudulent means to seek exemption from the RTI Act.
The CBSE, however, stated that the students of classes X and XII will be allowed to appear for the All-India Secondary School Examination / All India Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination of the Board to be held in 2017 and 2018 after ascertaining their eligibility as per examination bylaws. The schools have been directed not to run Classes IX and XI under CBSE pattern with effect from 2017-18 session.
Sources said NPS is expected to move the court on Wednesday and seek a stay on the order. “Thousands of children are studying in these schools. It is not easy to accommodate all of them in other schools. We too are clueless.
The school management, however, is lobbying hard with the state government to go soft on them,” said an officer from DPI. Tens of parents who spoke to Deccan Chronicle said that they did not know what lay ahead for their children as getting fresh admissions in new schools was virtually impossible. “I really don't know what we are going to do,” said a desperate mother of two children.
