Main objectives of CBSE are

• • To define appropriate approaches of academic activities to provide stress free, child centered and holistic education to all children without compromising on quality

• • To analyze and monitor the quality of academic activities by collecting the feedback from different stakeholders

• • To develop norms for implementation of various academic activities including quality issues; to control and coordinate the implementation of various academic and training programmes of the Board; to organize academic activities and to supervise other agencies involved in the process

• • To adapt and innovate methods to achieve academic excellence in conformity with psychological, pedagogical and social principles.

• • To encourage schools to document the progress of students in a teacher and student friendly way

• • To propose plans to achieve quality benchmarks in school education consistent with the National goals

• • To organize various capacity building and empowerment programmes to update the professional competency of teachers

• • To prescribe conditions of examinations and conduct public examination at the end of Class X and XII. To grant qualifying certificates to successful candidates of the affiliated schools.

• • To fulfill the educational requirements of those students whose parents were employed in transferable jobs

• • To prescribe and update the course of instructions of examinations

• To affiliate institutions for the purpose of examination and raise the academic standards of the country.