At least 300CBSE schoolsin the state do not have documents or do not possess the no-objection certificate which is mandatory for operating inMaharashtra. The state Education department had ordered a survey of all CBSE schools after five institutions in Mumbai and Pune were found to have fake no-objection certificates.
There are 1,723 non-state board schools in the state and the survey report said that some schools had avoided showing their documents to officials on inspection.
The forged no-objection certificates in favour of trusts running three schools first came to the notice of a deputy secretary in the education department’s office in Mantralaya in Mumbai last July.
He had received files along with documents of these schools and noticed that the certificates had his signatures when he had never signed them or issued them.