One civic school in each ward to offer CBSE curriculum: BMC

Mentioning that there has always been a plan to start more civic schools offering non-state board curriculum in the city, the officer said, “Urban parents are more inclined towards sending their children to non-state board schools.

When BMC started these schools, the plan was to offer such popular curriculums to students from underprivileged backgrounds in civic school, and generally are not be able to take admissions to high-profile non-state board schools.

After starting to offer non-state board curriculums in a few civic schools, the plan was to replicate the model in others. Now, we are checking whether it would be possible.” Civic schools have traditionally been offering state-board curriculum.

BMC, however, started the trend of offering a more popular non-state board curriculum in civic schools in 2020. Even as it started with one school each affiliated to the CBSE and the Indian Certificate of School Education (ICSE) curriculum, soon 10 new CBSE schools were started, following a demand.

The BMC currently runs 11 schools affiliated to the CBSE, and one school each offering ICSE, Cambridge and International Baccalaureate (IB).

Confirming the plan, D Gangadharan, BMC deputy commissioner (Education), said, “It is currently in a nascent stage as we are only collecting information.”