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The GeneralManager(P), All Zonal Railways/Production Unirs, (As per standardmailinglist).

Sub: Acceptanceof certificates/qualifications awardedby variousBoards of SchoolEducationin India for thepurposeof emplovment on therailways. Attentionis invitedto Board's instructionscontainedin ngg NO.75i2014dated 15.A7.2014 dnd RBENo.29l2015dated26.03.2015 ontheabovesub.lect, inter-aliastaring that the off,rcialrvebsiteof COBSE be referredfor.list of Boardsof Schooleducationfor MemberBoardsas well asAssociateMemberBoards. 2. Clarification has now been receivedfrom Departmentof School Education& Literacy,Ministry of Human ResourceDevelopment(MHRD) vide their OM No.l01/2017Sch-3 dated25.04.2017, statingthat Councilof Boardr of S.hool Educationin India (COBSE)is a privateorganization and its membership is voluntaryandCOBSEhas nof beenestablished by rhat Ministil,. Moreover,the membership of COBSEdoesnot automaticallygrant the statusof recognizedBoard upon any mimbgi Board. Further, !/[HRD neitherregulatessettingup of FducationBoardsnor doesit give recognitionto EducationBoardsexcepttwo nationalieVeleducarion boards,viz., CBSEanONtOS. a

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3 Accordingly.the matterhas beenexarninedin this Ministry and it has been deeided bv the Boardtc u,ilhd::a.d, iristructions daied15.A7.2Gi4r-riicier.RtsE i.io.75nAi4 and dated 26'03.2015under RBE No.2912015.Further, for genuineness of vaiious School Boards, State Governments concerned may be approached on whose authorig.'theyclaimto be genuine. 3.

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.....2t@ National Federation of Indiun Railwaymen (N.F.LR) 3, Chelmsford Road, New Delhi. No.IAl/Part XII Datud:06/09/2017 Copy together witlt copies,of RBE No. 75/2014and RBE No. 2g/201s may be sent to the Generul Secreturies of aftiliated (lnions of NFIRfor further sction.

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