CBSE schools told to get nod for vacation classes

The Kerala High Court has stayed the orders of the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights and the Director of Public Instructions restraining CBSE-affiliated schools from conducting classes for Class IX to XII during summer vacation, to enable certain CBSE schools to move the CBSE for permission to hold classes subject to 20 days.

The court while considering a batch of writ petitions filed by certain CBSE-affiliated schools directed these schools to submit in a week a proper application before the Regional Director of CBSE seeking permission to conduct vacation classes and also specifying the dates of classes. The petitioners were directed to attach a declaration by the managements and the Principals of the respective schools that the school had sufficient facilities for conducting such vacation classes and also attach a resolution passed by the Parent Teachers Association for the conduct of vacation classes.

The court ordered the Regional Director to consider such applications taking into account the number of working days lost during the previous academic year on account of hartal/strike and fix the days of vacation classes, subject to an upper limit of 20 days. And the managements could conduct classes based on the orders to be passed by the Regional Director.