(1) The Board shall, within two years from the establishment of the Board or within such further time as may be allowed by the State Government, prepare and submit to the State Government an estimate of the immediate and prospective needs of the State as regards Secondary Education and shall, from time to time, in respect of any area, where in its opinion suitable provision for Secondary Education is not available, submit to the State Government a plan (in this Act called the Development Plan) in such form as may be prescribed by rules, showing the measures the Board proposes to take for the development of Secondary Education in that area.
Duty to make suitable provision for Secondary ducation.
Developmeat Plan.
18 The West Bengal Secondary Education Act, 1950.
[West Ben. Act (Chapter 117.—Functions of the Board and the Executive Council.—Section 34.)
(2) The Board, in framing the Development Plan of an area, shall have regard to and specify —
(a) the number, situation, nature and suitability of the existing High Schools;
(b) what additional High Schools, if any, and of what nature, will be required for the area and the location of such schools;
(c) which High Schools, if any, recognised either temporarily or permanently by the University of Calcutta shall cease to be recognised by the Board, giving reasons for such recommendations;
(d) the arrangements made and proposed to be made by the Board for the provision of boarding accommodation attached to High Schools;
(e) what other measures, if any, the Board proposes to take to secure better facilities for Secondary Education ; and
(f) such other particulars of the proposals of the Board with respect to High Schools as the Board thinks necessary or as the State Government may require.
(3) The Board shall, before submitting its Development Plan to the State Government, consult the Managing Committees of all High Schools and other educational institutions which would in the opinion of the Board be affected by the execution of the plan, and shall, after submitting the plan to the State Government, forthwith furnish to the 'Managing Committee of every such High School and such educational institution, such particulars relating to the plan as are sufficient to show the manner in which the school or educational institution may be affected by the execution thereof.
(4) If after a Development Plan has been submitted to it, the State Government is of opinion that no particulars or insufficient particulars of the plan have been furnished to any Managing Committee of a High School or an educational institution which, in its opinion, would be affected by the execution of the plan, it may give such directions as it thinks fit for securing that sufficient particulars are so furnished.
(ö) The Board shall consider all objections to a Development Plan made to it within a period of two months from the date on which it is satisfied that all necessary particulars have been furnished in accordance with the last two preceding sub-sections.
(6) The State Government shall thereupon, after such consultations with the Board as it considers necessary or expedient and within a period of six months from the receipt of all objections made to it under sub-section (S), either reject the plan or approve the plan with such modifications, if any, as may be agreed upon between the State Government and the Board.
The West Bengal Secondary Education Act, 1950. 19 XXXVII of 1950.]
(Chapter IV.—Functions of the Board and the Executive Council.—Sections 35, 36.)