Aims of Board

The aims of the Board shall be to provide secondary and higher secondary education and, for this purpose grant recognition to the required number of such schools in the territory; to pay special attention to the improvement of the secondary and higher secondary education so that it meets the required needs and standards of economic and social development; to provide adequate facilities for educational and professional advancement of socially and educationally backward communities; to take such steps and such measures as may lead to intellectual, academic, physical and cultural development of the youth. (v) The decision of the Board in respect of the books referred to it, shall be communicated by the Secretary to the author or publisher concerned. (16) Authors or publishers submitting fore consideration shall not be entitled to have either the copies of the reports of the reviewers or the recommendations or observations of the Committees of the Board thereon. The reason for rejecting the book shall not be communicated to them. Strict secrecy shall be maintained in respect of all mattes relating to the appointment of reviewers and their reports, or the observations or recommendations of the various committees or of any discussions in the meeting regarding the merits or demerits of the books. (17) It shall always be competent for the Board, after calling upon the author or publisher to show cause as to why such action may not be taken to remove from the sanctioned list any text-book in case any deterioration, serious defect or deficiency is notified later on it or in the event of any breech of undertaking given by the author or publisher. The decision of the Board in this respect shall be final. (18) The text-books for all standards, including the final standard which were approved, sanctioned or prescribed by the competent authorities immediately before the appointed day, shall continue to be so approved, sanctioned or prescribed for the respective standards upto and inclusive of the academic year 1976-77 and for the final examination upon and inclusive of October, 1977. (19) Where the Board has sanctioned a text-book for a specified period, it shall be competent for the Board to extend the period of sanction, from time to time, but not beyond the total period of more than three academic years, after broad scrutiny by the Board of studies or without any fresh review or scrutiny as it deems fit. (20) No sanction of the will be necessary foe use of any book as a supplementary reader for inclusion in teacher’s or pupil’s libraries or for giving such books as prizes to pupils. For Appendices A and B appended to the principal Rules shall be deleted.