Mumbai is going to be the first Indian city to have a Cambridge affiliated municipal school providing free education to the students. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is trying to open at least one school by June next year. It aims to have one Cambridge Board-affiliated school in each of the city’s 24 administrative wards. The initiative would make international education accessible to Mumbai students regardless of their financial condition.
Some BMC schools have already been teaching the ICSE and CBSE curriculum. Two ICSE and twelve CBSE municipality schools have got established and are currently educating students through the internet. When the first ICSE municipal school opened in Mumbai, it reversed the trend of declining enrolment in civic body-run schools. The demand for admissions at these schools became so high that a lottery system for student enrolment was implemented. BMC becomes the only municipality in the country to provide a choice of various education boards to its students providing them an opportunity to learn foreign languages along with their mother tongue and English. In the long term the students would be benefitting by getting good exposure and globalized knowledge.
