CBSE Confirms Action Against Dummy Schools as HC Seeks Strict Check

Dummy Schools: Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and Delhi government have been asked to act against dummy schools which unfairly allow students to take board exams without attending classes in schools. The Delhi High Court on January 27, 2025, directed the board to look into the issue.

A bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyay and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela highlighted this as a ‘fraud’, and also mentioned that schools which are conducting coaching and students who are not attending classes cannot be allowed to appear for board exams on the basis of ‘absolutely false information’.

The bench further ordered, “It is observed that students do not attend classes in schools but spend time in coaching centres. However, they are allowed to take exams by the education boards where they are required to register the requisite minimum attendance.

We therefore direct the state government and CBSE to conduct an inspection in this regard,” it ordered. The bench headed by the judges also took note of schools which were being used to give advantage of Delhi residents to students from other states, and sought affidavits from the Delhi government and the CBSE regarding appropriate action against the schools.
The Delhi High Court has passed this direction on a public interest litigation. During the hearing, the counsel for the Delhi government said that there is no concept of ‘dummy’ school and claimed that the issue of ‘fake admissions’ is being blown out of proportion and ‘misrepresented’.

The CBSE told the court that action has been taken against more than 300 ‘dummy’ schools across the country. Saying that the authorities can call such schools ‘anything’, the Delhi government counsel was also questioned by the court on the action taken by the state education department on the alleged fake admissions.

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