The Delhi Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Department of Education’s proposal that the State government will pay the CBSE examination fee of Class X and XII students of government and government-aided schools, including taken over schools and Patrachar Vidyalayas.
The move is likely to benefit 3.14 lakh students and will cost the government ₹57 crore. This will be implemented from the current academic session (2019-20) onwards.
Giving details, the government said that the DoE will remit the total exam fee of students directly to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) through heads of schools concerned.
The fee will include that paid towards practical examinations for science stream and vocational subjects opted by students of Class XII. “No fee shall be collected from students on account of CBSE board exam fee,” the government said.
₹1,800 per student
“There are 1,79,914 students studying in Class X, and 1,33,802 students in Class XII. There are five compulsory subjects and one optional subject for which fee is to be remitted. This will be ₹1,800 per student,” the government said.
Earlier, the government had announced that it will pay the fees of students after the CBSE notified the hike last month.
The CBSE had increased the fee for general category students from ₹750 to ₹1,500 for five subjects. Justifying the increase in examination fee, CBSE had said that expenditure on Class X and XII exams amounted to approximately ₹500 crore last year and that earnings from student exam fee was less than ₹250 crore.
