HSEB has been closely monitoring the status and performance of the higher secondary schools for the last three years and had warned those in poor shape to improve themselves.
HSEB on Monday issued the names of colleges that would face closure with effect from July 15. The Board has set a 15-day deadline for the institutions to furnish sufficient evidence of their competence for conducting classes.
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In addition, the Board has asked guardians to verify the status of the colleges before they enroll their children.
"The licenses of these institutions will be scrapped effective from the first day of the new fiscal year and there is no chance of their revival," Chaitanya Prasad Sharma, HSEB vice-chairperson, said, urging the guardians to avoid the colleges in question.
HSEB has also directed its district-based offices to make sure there is no foul play to deceive students in this new season for admissions in Grade 11. Though the colleges received their licenses two to three years ago, they have been reluctant to upgrade their infrastructure, their teaching standards and other aspects, according to Sharma.
"Many of them do not even have the infrastructure they show on paper," he added.
The Board will be forming a committee to monitor and regulate the colleges from the beginning of classes in the new session.
The colleges had been defiant over calls by the Board in the last couple of years to produce clarifications or upgrade their infrastructure, according to HSEB officials.
The Board itself has been hauled up the Commission for Investigation for Abuse of Authority several times over its controversial move in granting affiliation to the private colleges. The action against ill-equipped colleges would be speeded up in the coming session, Sharma claimed.
