Overview

• Fifteen teams of CBSE officers and affiliated school principals conducted synchronized inspections across Delhi, Chandigarh, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal
• The operation aimed to verify adherence to board bye-laws on student attendance and required academic and physical infrastructure
• CBSE Secretary Himanshu Gupta confirmed that many schools were found to have enrolled dummy students who skip regular classes
• The inspections follow earlier disaffiliations for attendance violations and precede a forthcoming ban on dummy-school students in Class 12 board exams
• After reviewing the inspection committee reports, the board will enforce strict actions against institutions that breach its enrolment and infrastructure norms