School Parliament Elections: Schedule, Guidelines, Forms

The General Education Department has published norms and guidelines regarding the formation and execution of School Parliament. All sections like Upper Primary, High School, Higher Secondary and Vocation Higher Secondary should jointly form the School Parliamentary Council so that it would be one parliament in one school. School parliamentary council activities' motto must be creating awareness of republicanism and developing unity among the students. School parliament election should be peaceful and devoid of any political party's interference.

School Parliament and Its Aim

The school parliament should run various clubs like Literary club, Arts club, Sports club etc to promote and to realize the concept of 'republicanism' and be part of conduct of Arts Fest, Sports Meet, Maths and Science Fair, Social Science Fair and other such public programmes. Also it should work for the academic up gradation and be part of study tour committee.

Formation of School Parliament

Each class in Govt/Aided/Recognized Un-Aided Upper Primary, High School, Higher Secondary, Vocational Higher Secondary sections would be a unit. Each unit would select a member known as Class leader. They combine and form school parliament. The link given below provides detailed guidelines on selection of class leaders. 

The school parliament should meet to elect Chair person, Vice chair person, Secretary, Joint Secretary, Arts club Secretary, Joint Secretary, Literary Club Secretary, Joint Secretary, Sports Club Secretary and Joint Secretary. Representations of each section from school is given below in detail. Click the link to download school parliament election related detailed guidelines, nominations papers, forms, circulars etc.

School Parliament Election Schedule 2023-24

The schedule for the School Parliament election for the academic year 2023-24 is outlined below (dates & time are subject to change).

School Parliamnet Election Schedule 2023-24
Last date for filing Nominations	28-11-2023(12 PM)
Scrutiny of Nominations	28-11-2023(5 PM )
Last date for withdrawal of Candidature	29-11-2023(1 PM)
Publishing Final List of Candidates	29-11-2023 (3.30 PM)
Date of Poll	04-12-2023(11 AM)
Counting of Votes	04-12-2023(1 PM)
Selection of Office bearers	04-12-2023 (AFTERNOON)

School Parliament Election Notification, Nomination Form 2023-24

The Circular, Government order, Nomination form, etc., related to the school parliament election for the academic year 2023-24 are available for download through the following links.

Downloads
School Parliament Election Schedule 2023-24. Circular No DGE No.H1/13622/2023/H1 dtd 22.11.2023	Download
Guidelines for School Parliament Election.GO MS No.194/07 Gen.Edn. Dtd 05/11/2007	Download
Nomination & Related Forms for School Parliament Election	Download