17000 CBSE schools may see change as PMO pushes for military-model training

Pushing for sainik school-type learning to promote discipline, physical education, patriotic outlook

Around 17,000 Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)-affiliated schools across the country could be the testing ground after the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) asked the ministry of human resources to consider replicating the model of sainik schools (military schools) in all schools across the country.

The PMO was pushing for sainik school-type learning to promote discipline, physical education and a patriotic outlook among students.

There are 25 sainik schools across the country, according to the 2016-17 annual report of the defence ministry.

The schools, run by Sainik Schools Society,