To start with, CBSE is allowing the 1,814 schools in Delhi region to use the internet to send data of their students to CBSE so that their admit cards for the exams in 2009 can be issued on time and without any error.

CBSE had started the facility of online submission for its 145 foreign schools in the 2007-08 session that received an encouraging response since it saved schools from the effort of collecting the data and sending it to India by post. CBSE is now starting with Delhi region this session (2008-09) and plans to take it to other states if the schools respond well. "Earlier, schools had to send the list of candidates to us by post. We then checked manually for any discrepancies and sent the data back for correction. The representative of the school had to then bring the LOCs back to us. The procedure consumed a lot of time and the entire process often got delayed," said a CBSE official.

However, now schools can send the proforma of students from classes X and XII by email. According to CBSE officials, mistakes generally crept in the spellings of the names, date of birth or age. "These can be verified and corrected instantly as we can convey it to the school on the internet, who would do the needful immediately," said the official.

After finalising the data, CBSE dispatches admit cards by January every year. According to sources, this facility may be extended to five other regions of CBSE after gauging the response of Delhi schools and students may also be able to download their admit cards from the CBSE website from next session.