Andhra Pradesh schools affiliation to CBSE to be transitioned gradually, Class 8 affiliation from 2022-23 session

According to media reports in less than two weeks from announcing that the CBSE system will be implemented for the students from classes 1 to 7 in all the government schools in Andhra Pradesh from the academic year of 2021-22 the state government has put the decision on hold stating that obtaining accreditation will not come immediately since the process will take at least a year. 

Andhra Pradesh state government had announced that classes 1 to 7 will be affiliated under the CBSE while classes 8 to 10 will be shifted to CBSE over the next three years thereby completing the conversion process by 2024. 

Andhra Pradesh School Education Principal Secretary B Rajsekhar stated that discussions with the CBSE  have just started and normally they accept formal accreditation for classes 8 to 10 only. He further stated that the department is initiating the process for securing CBSE accreditation for classes 8 for the 2022-21 academic year. 

Principal Secretary B Rajsekhar also made it clear that obtaining CBSE accreditation will not come immediately since the process will take at least a year. Specification on whether the Telugu medium of instruction would continue unchanged has also not been provided. 

CBSE system by 2021-22

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has also announced on February 25 that the CBSE system will be implemented for classes 1 to 7 in all government schools from 2021-22 academic year. 

The decision of the Chief Minister to switch over to CBSE is seen as a move by some groups to completely do away with the Telugu medium of education at a time when the Supreme Court is in process of adjudicating litigation against the conversion of all government schools from classes 1 to 6 to English medium. 

The Principal Secretary further added that under the CBSE Telugu is only a subject taught and the curriculum will be in Hindi or English medium. It was also added that there are different ways to get affiliated to CBSE for classes 1 to 7 and the department is exploring a lot of other things related to CBSE accreditation and discussing it with the board. 

While addressing the concern over doing away with Telugu Rajsekhar stated that discussions with the CBSE were being conducted on how to ensure that the state issues were not diluted. 

Encourage Telugu without a problem

The Principal Secretary further stated that discussions are being conducted on how to encourage Telugu without any problem without losing focus and leveraging CBSE to include Telugu culture in the textbooks while affiliating with the CBSE. discussions are also being conducted in policies that should be brought in to achieve the standards in schools without diluting the state issues.

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