Short Form of West Bengal Board of Higher Secondary Education

Would you please tell me what is the Short Form of West Bengal Board of Higher Secondary Education? and also give me some information about West Bengal Board of Higher Secondary Education?

[Kiran Chandar]

The Short Form of West Bengal Board of Higher Secondary Education is WBBSE, it is the West Bengal state government administered autonomous examining authority for the Standard 10 examination (or secondary school level examination) of West Bengal, India and it was founded in 1951 under an Act of the State Legislature.

The basic task before the Board was two fold.

To regulate, control and develop secondary education of the State.
To conduct the School Final Examination.

It has its headquarters at Nivedita Bhaban, in Bidhannagar, a suburb of Kolkata.

Functions and Activities of The Board:

To promote and develop the aspect of secondary education in the state of West Bengal.

To act as the advisory organ to state government on the matter of scientific advancement of secondary education.

To take steps to Recognise High Schools especially girls' high schools so that students including girl students and those from far flung areas get opportunity to study after completion of their primary education.

To frame curricula and syllabi in consonance with the rapid changes in the socio economic milieu of the country and the world.

To conduct the secondary examination Better known as Madhyamik Pariksha after completion of class 10 which becomes the first public examination in the students' life.

To frame rules in order to ensure smooth transparent democratic and disciplined management of the schools which are recognized by the Board. By virtue of its position in the middle tier WBBSE also strives to harmonise, coordinate and linkup the activities of West Bengal Board of Primary Education and West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education. 1974.

Address:
West Bengal Board Of Secondary Education
DJ 8, Derozio Bhawan, FP Road, DK Block,
Sector II, Salt Lake City,
Kolkata, West Bengal 700091

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