New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has increased the fees of Class 10 and 12 board examinations for SC and ST students from Rs 50 to Rs 1,200, while the amount has been doubled for those from the general category, who will now have to pay Rs 1,500.
The students appearing for the Class 10 board exams are registered for it when in Class 9, and those appearing for Class 12 are registered when in Class 11. The board notified the changes in the fees last week and has asked the schools who had already begun the registration process and charged students as per the old fee structure, to now collect the difference in amount.
According to the revised norms, the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students will have to pay Rs 1,200 for five subjects, while earlier they were supposed to pay Rs 50 for the same, a hike of 24 times. The general category students who were paying Rs 750 earlier, will now pay Rs 1,500 for five subjects.
“The fees is applicable for both Class 10 and 12 examinations,” a senior CBSE official said.
For appearing for an additional subject in Class 12 board examination, the SC and ST students who were earlier not supposed to pay any extra fee, will now have to pay Rs 300. General category students will also have to pay Rs 300 for an additional subject, instead of Rs 150 earlier.
“100 per cent visually impaired students are exempted from paying CBSE examination fees. The student, who fails to deposit the difference in CBSE examination fee before the last date, will not be registered and will not be allowed to appear in the 2019-20 examination,” the official added.
The migration fees which was Rs 150 earlier, has also been increased to Rs 350.
The students enrolled in CBSE schools abroad will have to pay Rs 10,000 for five subjects for both Class 10 and 12. Earlier it was Rs 5000. For them, the fees for an additional subject in Class 12 has been fixed at Rs 2,000, as against Rs 1,000 earlier.- PTI
The first question is why SC/ST children are paying less? Are they uniformly penniless and the GC rolling in wealth? The casteist scheme is total and blatant violation of Article 15 of the constitution. The media instead of opposing such discriminatory schemes is inciting the SC/ST.
BBC is no longer an impartial media putting news first. In the name of diversity, they employ leftists and muslims who rarely hold back their anti hindu bias. There is genocide-like suppression of minorities in pakistan which is never highlighted by BBC. It shows its vicious anti-hindu bias. There is horrible violation of human rights by China in Tibet. Does BBC visit Tibet and report such chinese atrocities? BBC teports with many tongues but keeos up unethical unprofessional bias against India. Becsuse India dors not bristle like China and Pakistan.
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Why this special treatment to SCs and STs, when you don’t want special treatment to the Kashmiris? The reason is simple. The SCs and STs can be put to humiliation by the special treatment but can you put a Hindu Brahmin to humiliation by giving special treatment to a Muslim?