Published on : 27 Sep 2025, 10:00 am

Guwahati: The Government of India has entrusted the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) with the responsibility of granting equivalence to Class 10 (Secondary) and Class 12 (Senior Secondary) certificates issued by school education boards across the country.

The notification, issued by the Department of School Education and Literacy on September 6, 2025, supersedes an earlier directive from November 15, 2021, which had vested the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) with this role. Under the new framework, NCERT will discharge this responsibility through the National Assessment Centre Performance Assessment, Review and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development (PARAKH) established under the National Education Po

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