BMC to start 10 CBSE schools

The proposal will be tabled before the civic body education committee on Thursday for its approval

With a view to provide an alternative to the parents of students from economically weaker sections (EWS) diverting to private English medium schools, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will now start 10 more schools with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) curriculum. The proposal will be tabled before the civic education committee on Thursday for approval.

The move comes after the civic body received a huge response during the admission of its newly started CBSE school in Jogeshwari -Mumbai Public School. "The idea is to provide an alternative to parents who are willing to shif t to private English medium schools. The huge number of applications received for the Mumbai Public school was yet another indication that we need more CBSE schools," Sainath Durge, member of civic education committee, told the Free Press Journal.

BMC’s plan to offer education on a non-state board is aimed at reforming its school system and arresting student attrition. BMC, currently, runs over 4,000 schools in the city with the state board syllabus. In a radical move, it decided to offer nonstate board curricula from the next academic year 2020-2021. The Dadar Woollen Mills school and the Mumbai Public school in Poonam Nagar, Jogeshwari, have been set up to impart the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) and CBSE syllabus, respectively.