Ramdev’s Bhartiya Shiksha Board Becomes Pan-India School Education Board

New Delhi: All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) designated the Bhartiya Shiksha Board (BSB) of Swami Ramdev as a pan-India School Education Board. It will be equivalent to other national boards in the country.

In its notification, the AICTE stated that BSB, formed in 2019 and approved by the Department of Higher Education under the Ministry of Education, will now be considered equivalent to other national boards in the country.

“Association of Indian Universities (AIU), accords equivalence to school Boards in India. AIU has accorded equivalence for grade 10 and grade 12 Board examination qualifications of Bhartiya Shiksha Board (BSB) that shall function as a regular school Board within India. You are, therefore requested to consider Bhartiya Shiksha Board as a Pan India School Education Board,” read the official notification from AICTE.

The BSB’s website mentions it as a movement against ‘Macaulay’s toxic legacy’.

This new board for school education is headed by Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna. Other board members of the education board are spiritual leader Morari Bapu, Swami Govind Giri Ji, Shrinivasa Varakhedi (Upadhyaksha), Dr Nagendra Prasad Singh (the caretaker head), Dr Punam Suri and Giridhar Malaviya Sadasya.