Central Board of Open Schooling and Examination (CBOSE) - Valid or NOT?

The Central Board of Open Schooling and Examination (CBOSE) is an India-based open schooling organisation that describes itself as an autonomous, non-profit, education-oriented academic body offering Secondary (Class X equivalent) and Senior Secondary (Class XII equivalent) programmes through open and distance learning modes. The Central Board of Open Schooling and Examination (CBOSE) references an Extraordinary Legislative Notification published by the Uttar Pradesh Government (Vidhayee Anubhag-3) in Lucknow on 27 December 2018 under Notification Number Sankhya 500/79-Vi-1-21-2(Ka)-22-2018 (Serial Number: Kram Sankhya — 199).

Gazette Notification Specifics (verbatim bullet items):

Gazette Type: Asadharan (Extraordinary)

Section: Vidhayee Parishisht, Bhag-3 (Ka)

Date of Publication: 27 December 2018 (Pausa 9, 1940 Saka Samvat)

Issuing Authority: Uttar Pradesh Shasan, Vidhayee Anubhag-3 (Legislative Section-3)

Government of India Office Memorandum (MHRD, 24 April 2017)

On the recognition status of Boards and the role of COBSE, the central Government of India issued a clarifying Office Memorandum from the Ministry of Human Resource Development (now Ministry of Education), Department of School Education & Literacy, on 24 April 2017. The OM is the single most-cited Government of India document on the question of whether COBSE membership is equivalent to recognition, and it is reproduced in full below.