The Assam authorities has proposed to merge the state boards for Courses 10 and 12 into one single entity to handle secondary training on Wednesday.

The state authorities launched the Assam State Faculty Schooling Board Invoice, 2024 within the Meeting to create a brand new physique to manage the training system until Class 12 within the state.

Assam Govt:Assam govt’s nice step to supervise secondary training, proposes to merge Class 10 & 12 boards into single entity

In keeping with the invoice, the Board of Secondary Schooling, Assam, (SEBA) and the Assam Larger Secondary Schooling Council (AHSEC) might be merged to create a brand new physique -Assam State Faculty Schooling Board (ASSEB).

The invoice has been dropped at “regulate, supervise and develop Secondary Schooling within the state of Assam by merging the prevailing Board of Secondary Schooling, Assam, and Assam Larger Secondary Schooling Council”, the preamble of the laws acknowledged.

The ASSEB might be headed by a md, to be nominated by the federal government. A person vice chairman will take care of every division underneath the chairman and she or he might be nominated by the federal government.

The brand new board could have a complete of 21 members, who could have a three-year time period and it may be renewed for an equal interval.

“The target is to introduce the Assam State Faculty Schooling Board Invoice, 2024 to develop, regulate and supervise the requirements and high quality in class training within the state of Assam,” Schooling Minister Ranoj Pegu stated within the Assertion of Object and Causes of the Invoice.

The merger choice was taken at a gathering of the state cupboard earlier in November final yr, chaired by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.

Notably, the SEBA conducts the Class 10 board examination, whereas the Class 12 examinations are sorted by the AHSEC.

The transfer comes after the leaking of a minimum of two query papers within the Class 10 board examinations by SEBA in 2023. The overall science and Assamese papers had been leaked in March final yr.

This pressured the SEBA and authorities to reschedule the examinations of normal science, all topics of Trendy Indian Languages (MIL), together with Assamese, and English (IL).