CBSE - Central Board of Secondary Education

As a result of the Calcutta University Commission (1917-19) popularly called the Sadler Commission, Boards of Secondary Education had started coming up in various parts of the country. U. P. Board of High School and Intermediate Education, the first High School and Intermediate Education, the first such Board to be set up, was looking after the interest of a large area including Rajputana, Central India, and Gwalior. A stage had, however, come when that Board did not find it possible to shoulder this extraterritorial responsibility any longer. The Government of the United Provinces, therefore, represented to the Government of India, that the jurisdiction of the U. P. Board was too unwieldy for it to maintain an efficient administration and that the candidates from areas outside the United Provinces should not be admitted to the Board's examination beyond the year 1927-28. As a result of the representation, the Government of India suggested two alternatives for the consideration of the Administration of Princely States in Rajputana, Central India, and Gwalior. One suggestion was to set up a joint Board for all the areas concerned and the other was to have a separate Board for each of the areas thus affected. There were many advantages of the Joint Board, chief among them being the economy in expenditure both on the administration and examination and the comprehensive representations that would be available from all the areas concerned. It was, therefore, decided that a joint-board for all the areas should be evolved. As such the Board of High School and Intermediate Education, Rajputana including Ajmer-Merwara, Central India and Gwalior was established in 1929 by a resolution of the Government of India. The Board, as constituted under that resolution, had its headquarters at Ajmer with the agent to the Governor-General in Rajputana and Chief Commissioner, Ajmer-Merwara, Lt Col. G.D. Ogilvie, as the Controlling Authority and a total membership of 38 including representatives of the administered areas and States within its jurisdiction.