Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 10

Online admission process for Class XI in city’s Government Senior Secondary Schools will commence from August 11. The last date for filling the registration form will be August 19.

This year, a total of 42 senior secondary schools will be open for admission, which includes two upgraded senior secondary level schools. Apart from this, seats have been increased in the commerce and humanities stream in two schools.

Director, School Education, Rubinderjit Singh Brar said: “With an array of competent faculty and well maintained infrastructure, smart classrooms and state-of-the-art sports complexes, it is worth mentioning that the performance of the government schools of the UT has increased by leaps and bounds in the recent years.”

“The aspirational value of government schools of Chandigarh is very high and there shall be at least 15,000 candidates, who will be saving their valuable time by avoiding the long queues of waiting for the admissions, especially in the current scenario owing to Covid-19 pandemic,” said Brar.

Admission procedure

The registration form is to be filled online at www.chdeducation.gov.in or www.nielit. gov.in/chd, stated the School Education Department.

The form will be accepted with a registration fee of Rs 130 payable through net banking/credit card/debit card.

After logging in on the website, a candidate shall generate his/her account by filling in the basic details, the department said, adding that after the candidate fills in the details a unique ID and password shall be generated, which the candidate shall have to keep safe for any future reference. There is only one registration form for all the streams.

Candidates scoring above 60 per cent have to fill up a minimum of 10 options of schools and streams of his/her choice.

Those having 60 per cent or below need to fill in a minimum of 15 options for the choice of school/stream.

The department further stated that the students who had passed Class X exam from board other than the CBSE; the candidates who had passed compartment exam; Class X exam in any year except 2021; and the candidates claiming benefit for reservation under any category shall have to submit a scanned copy of the relevant certificate/documents to claim the reservation.

A candidate can edit the submitted registration form till last date of the filling of the form.

In case of any discrepancy/objection after the common merit list has been displayed, the candidates can submit the objection through email on a specified proforma by logging in with his ID and password, the department stated.