The state education department has decided that secondary and higher secondary schools will be allowed to have more than six sections per standard only if they register more than 50% results in board exams for three consecutive years.
Earlier, the rule stipulated 75% results for additional sections. However, there was no clarity on which three-year tenure will be considered.
Sources said that the government, in its 2012 notification, had stated that schools should record 75% or above results if they wanted to add more than six sections per standard in Classes 9-12. Since there was no clarity on the tenure, many schools thought that last yearsboard examresults would be considered to grant them the benefit of additional sections.