CBSE mandates schools to comply with digital infrastructure norms

Nagpur: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has directed all of its affiliated schools to mandatorily comply with its revised guidelines for digital infrastructure with immediate effect.
The digital infrastructure includes computer labs, smart classrooms etc and a ‘backbone infrastructure’ to ensure that all of these things function smoothly.
However many schools have not implemented the central board’s guidelines in toto leaving the CBSE with no choice but to remind schools that this exercise is not optional.
The board’s secretary Anurag Tripathi wrote to schools saying that, “CBSE as a national board of education is required to play a critical role in implementing the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP), by revising its norms and system in the area including digital infrastructure”.
Tripathi said, “All the schools affiliated with CBSE are, thus, hereby directed to implement the following revised norms regarding mandatory digital infrastructure”.
Now every school needs to have one computer for every 18 students. And all of these computers need to be inter-connected with a single LAN network. Each school must have minimum of 40 such computers in the school computer lab.
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