CBSE-Sahodaya Schools Complexes

o providing support services for teachers and students. This concept is developed by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) New Delhi, the largest governing body of academics with nearly 10,000 schools affiliated to it within the country as well as abroad (118 Schools) functioning under the Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India. It is a unique platform for all CBSE affiliated Schools to share their experience and to work jointly for scholastic and co-scholastic excellence

In 1987, CBSE brought out a publication titled, “Freedom to learn and freedom to grow through Sahodaya School Complexes” (SSCs) which characterized “SSCs” as a voluntary association of schools in a given area, who through mutual choices, have agreed to come together for a systematic and system-wide renewal of the total educational process. In other words as “Sahodaya” signifies rising together, it identified six areas, to begin with, for collaboration amongst schools of its complex:

1. Educative Management
2. Evaluation
3. Human Resource Mobilization
4. Professional growth of teachers
5. Value oriented school climate
6. Vocationalisation of education. It is an interactive platform for schools to deliberate upon the different policies and guidelines of the board and provide effective feedback on their implementation to establish new benchmark of qualities. A futuristic vision of schooling needs to embrace various section of society with a view to establish social justice in terms of providing equal opportunities.