CBSE crackdown on institutions allowing dummy candidates a wakeup call for Bihar students, parents

The Central Board of Secondary Education's (CBSE) decision that students not enrolled in regular schools would be barred from taking the Class 12 board examination would have a direct impact in Bihar, where thousands of 'non-attending' students join coaching institutes both within and outside the state and take board exams at pre-determined locations.

There have also been reports of a big number of CBSE pupils transferring to Bihar government schools or aided institutions following Class 10 board results in order to take advantage of the non-attending facility and seek coaching throughout the country. The CBSE's decision follows two rounds of inspections in various schools across the country, including in Bihar and others in Delhi, Kota, and various other places where students from the state go, to get a sense of the serious problem posed by institutions offering non-attendance facilities in collusion with coaching institutes.

CBSE chairman Rahul Singh stated that the procedure involved an inspection with videography to determine whether the schools were operating in compliance with affiliation criteria and was part of a routine operation.