No.CBSE/Aff./2021 Date: 13.07.

2021
Circular No. 11/2021

PUBLIC NOTICE

Subject: Refraining from the use of CBSE name/Logo without Affiliation and checking
the status of Affiliation before admission-reg.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is a premier national Board under
the Ministry of Education. The mandate of CBSE is to conduct Secondary and Senior Secondary
School Examination in respect of CBSE Affiliated schools. The Affiliation is granted to schools
on fulfilment of various conditions prescribed in the CBSE Affiliation bye-laws.

The Board vide Circular no. 03 dated 2020 has issued an advisory wherein it is
mentioned that some schools whose application is either under process, or rejected by the
Board, or they have not applied for Affiliation at all, are misleading the parents in particular
and public in general, by displaying messages at the school's Board, prominent locations and
on the school's website showing messages such as "to be affiliated with CBSE", "CBSE Pattern",
"likely to be affiliated with CBSE", "running under the aegis of CBSE", “CBSE
course/Curriculum”, “CBSE registered” etc. It has come to the notice that despite clear
directions of the Board, a number of schools are indulging in nefarious activities thereby
misleading the stakeholders.

As per provision under clause 14.2.2 of CBSE Affiliation bye-laws, the CBSE does not
allow non-affiliated schools’ to present the candidates to the Board examinations. Hence
parents’ seeking admission of their ward in CBSE affiliated schools are requested to check the
Affiliation status of the school on this office’s website. The parents may go through the CBSE
Affiliation website at http://saras.cbse.gov.in/cbse_aff/welcome.aspx where link for searching
list of affiliated school is given.

(Anurag Tripathi)
Secretary

Distribution:
1. Additional Chief Secretary/Principal Secretary/Secretary to all States & Union
Territories