Powers and duties of the Board

Subject to conditions as may be prescribed and subject to such directions as may be issued by the Government from time to time, the Board shall have the following powers and perform the following duties, namely:- (1) to grant and withdraw affiliation to the secondary and higher secondary schools, and such other institutions; (2) to advise the Government on matters of policy relating to secondary and higher secondary education in general and on the following matters in particular :- (a) ensuring a uniform pattern of education; (b) maintenance of a uniform standard of education in secondary and higher secondary schools; (c) co-ordination between the national policies and the policies of the Territory in respect of secondary and higher secondary education; (d)co-ordination between primary, secondary, higher secondary and university education; (3) to lay down guiding principles regarding curricula and syllabi for the entire secondary and higher secondary and such other courses as it may deem fit and to prescribe courses of instruction and to prepare the detailed syllabi for all standards of secondary and higher secondary education and such other courses as it may deem fit; (4) to promote learning through French medium of instruction and take all necessary action in this regard; (5) to formulate general principles for recommending text-books for sanction by the Board, and to sanction such text-books subject to such conditions, as it may deem fit to impose; (6) to advise the Government in standard requirements in respect of staff, buildings, furniture, equipments, stationery and other amenities required for secondary and higher secondary schools and such other institutions; (7) to prescribe and prepare text-books for all standards of secondary and higher secondary education; (8) to conduct or caused to be conducted final examinations as the Board may deem fit, based on such courses as may be prescribed; (9) to prescribe conditions for admission of regular and private candidates to the final examinations and such other examinations as may be conducted or caused to be conducted by the Board; (10) to demand and receive payment of fees and other charges as may be prescribed from time to time; (11) to grant, subject to such conditions as the Board may determine, diplomas or certificates to, and confer other academic distinctions on the basis of examinations, evaluation or any other method of testing, on persons an to withdraw any such diplomas, certificates or other academic distinctions for good and sufficient cause; (12) to institute and award scholarships, stipends, medals, prizes and other rewards and to prescribe conditions therefor and prepare a list of eligible candidates according to merit for this purpose; (13) to receive bequests, donations, endowments, trusts and other transfers of any property or interest therein, or right thereto; (14) to hold any property, interest or right referred to in clause (13) above, and to manage and deal with the same; (15) to apply for and receive grants; (16) to appoint paper-setters, translators, examiners, moderators, supervisors, evaluators, invigilators and other necessary personnel for conducting final examinations in the Territory or such other examinations as may be conducted final examinations in the Territory or such other examinations as may be conducted by the Board, for evaluation of candidates’ performance and for compiling and release of results and also to consider disqualification of all such categories of persons on the recommendation of Examination Committee and Executive Council; (17) to open centers for the final examinations or such other examinations as are conducted or caused to be conducted by it; (18) to declare the results of the candidates at the final examinations or such other examinations as are conducted or caused to be conducted by it; (19) to regulate and enforce discipline among the employees of the Board and candidates appearing at the various examinations conducted or caused to be conducted by it; (20) to lay down procedures to deal with cases of use of unfair means in the examinations and to prescribe penalties in such cases; (21) to generally evaluate performance of students in all examinations in secondary and higher secondary schools including the final examinations and such other examinations conducted by it and make, from time to time, necessary recommendations in respect of the same to the Government; (22) to lay down the manner in which affiliation would be granted to or withdrawn from institutions; (23) to call for any information from secondary and higher secondary schools and to call for special reports and information from the Director of School Education generally and in particular in the matter of withdrawal of affiliation in cases of secondary schools and higher secondary schools which show poor academic results or commit grave or persistent academic or financial irregularities; (24) to require institutions affiliated to it and the Department of Education to extend their co-operation in the conduct of final examinations or such other examinations as may be conducted or caused to be conducted by it; (25) to recommend measures to promote intellectual, physical, moral and social welfare of students in the institutions affiliated to it and to lay down conditions of their residence, health and discipline; (26) to make arrangements for promoting the health and general welfare of its employees; (27) to appoint officers and servants of the Board, other than Chairman, Secretary, Under Secretary or Assistant Secretary, in its office and to regulate terms and conditions of their service; (28) to constitute provident fund for the benefit of the officers and servants of the Board; (29) to prepare and approve the annual financial statement; (30) to conduct statistical and other research for the purpose of evaluation and reform of the curricular instruction and examination system; (31) to appoint such committees as it may think necessary for the efficient discharge of its functions under this Act; (32) to make regulations for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act; (33) to exercise such other powers and perform such other duties as may be conferred or imposed by or under this Act; (34) to publish reports, papers, journals, bulletins, etc. giving information of the activities of the Board; (35) to make special arrangements in respect of women students as the Board may consider desirable; (36) to do all such acts and things as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.