CBSE amends affiliation norms: Sections to be permitted based mostly on college’s constructed up space | Training

Revealed on: Jul 31, 2025 06:10 pm IST
CBSE amends affiliation norms: Sections to be permitted based mostly on college’s constructed up space
New Delhi, The Central Board of Secondary Training has amended its affiliation bye-laws to mandate that the utmost variety of sections in a faculty might be permitted based mostly on the full built-up carpet space of the college constructing, in keeping with officers.
The board has additionally determined that colleges shall be allowed an equal variety of sections on the secondary stage and on the senior secondary stage.
“The board has been receiving suggestions from the faculties and stakeholders that there are areas the place there may be an acute scarcity of land availability, resulting from which, at occasions, the faculties face purposeful difficulties in rising further sections past the permissible restrict, even when there’s a demand for brand new admissions.
“The faculties additionally discover it tough to fulfill the part pupil ratio of 1:40 with stress for brand new admissions, however are unable so as to add further sections because of the restrict of permissible sections as per land standards,” mentioned CBSE Secretary Himanshu Gupta.
Gupta mentioned that the board has now determined that the utmost variety of sections in a faculty might be permitted based mostly on the full built-up carpet space of the college constructing.
“The built-up carpet space of the college constructing must be licensed by the native physique or a licensed architect, or because the case could also be. The land space shall be utilised just for the aim of deciding the class of the faculties Department College, Center Stage College, Secondary Stage and Senior Secondary Stage as per affiliation bye-laws,” he mentioned.
“The varsity shall be allowed an equal variety of sections at secondary stage and at senior secondary stage. The entire variety of sections permitted at secondary stage class 9 and 10 and at senior secondary stage class 11 and 12, shall be restricted at every stage to one-fourth of the full variety of sections operating within the college from Balvatika to class 10 and 12,” he mentioned.
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