‘It will hamper the efforts to introduce new syllabus in govt. schools’
Education Minister Adimulapu Suresh has requested the Centre to drop the proposal to shift the Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) Centre of Excellence (CoE) from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh to Chennai.
In a letter addressed to the Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal, Mr. Suresh wanted the Central government to direct the Chairman, CBSE, New Delhi, to cancel the orders of shifting of the CoE to Chennai and withdraw the transfer order of the staff. “The move will hamper the efforts to introduce the CBSE syllabus in all schools in the State,” said Mr. Suresh.
Established in 2014, the CBSE Centre of Excellence conducts 20 classes every month for a batch of 50 teachers from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, thus helping raise the standards of 1,000 teachers.
A similar move in the past to shift the centre to either Chennai or Bengaluru was stalled by the timely intervention of the Central…