CBSE creates Noida zone, 18 UP districts in its ambit

NOIDA: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has shifted the jurisdiction of schools of 18 Uttar Pradesh districts to its new regional office in Noida. All schools in Gautam Budh Nagar and Ghaziabad had so long been under the jurisdiction of the Dehradun division.
The move will help students living in the region who would previously have to travel to Dehradun for duplicate certificates, verification, pass certificates and related documents, said Manish Agarwal, the regional officer, CBSE, Noida region.
The 18 districts which would henceforth fall under the Noida region are Agra, Aligarh, Baghpat, Bareilly, Bulandshahr, Etah, Firozabad, Gautam Budh Nagar, Ghaziabad, Hapur, Hathras, Kasganj, Mainpuri, Mathura, Meerut, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur and Shamli.
Schools in these districts were earlier regulated from the board’s Allahabad and Dehradun centres.
The education board currently has 10 regional offices. The newly constructed office at Sector 136 was inaugurated in October 2019 and has been equipped to regulate the upcoming Class 10 and 12 board examinations of 2.5 lakh students. “CBSE in 2019 decided to increase its regional offices from 10 to 16 and Noida region was born from that,” Agarwal told TOI.
The dates for CBSE examinations this year have been brought forward by about a week. The class 10 examination will start from February 15 and end by March 20 and the class 12 examination will start from March 15 and end by March 30.
“By advancing the dates this year we are trying to give more attention to the paper checking process. The result will also be brought out sooner, possibly by the first week of May,” Agarwal said.