NEW DELHI Schools are opposing the new disclosure policy of the CBSE , arguing that the Board “has gone beyond its purview.” Reacting to the office memorandum issued by the Board with a list of 130 mandatory disclosures, the schools are questioning the logic behind making “sensitive” information public.While the National Progressive Schools’ Conference is yet to come up with an official statement, the principal of a south Delhi school, which is a member of the group, said: “Should information like salaries of teachers be put on the net? Why should a student know how much salary a teacher is drawing? After three years, the CBSE has withdrawn the re-evaluation policy. Why is the Board not open when it wants everybody to be open?”While appreciating the need for transparency that the CBSE has been stressing, another principal questioned the duplication of work since the schools are already furnishing “all the details” to the directorate of education, Delhi government.“Then there is the issue of confidentiality with teachers, and there are a lot of women in this profession. Also, all schools come under the state government and are under the tight control of the directorate. I appreciate transparency, but why can’t they take details from DoE and why do we need to put everything in public domain,” asked Ameeta Mulla Wattal, principal, Springdales School, Pusa Road.Some schools are quite reluctant to share the information sought. “I am fine divulging the information but the owner might not like to do so. The CBSE should seek only that information which they think is absolutely necessary,” said the principal of a school in Dwarka.Another concern being flagged is putting up everything on the net. “Why does CBSE want to give all the information on the website? What is the need to divulge the address of teachers and their salary on the internet? Will CBSE be interested in giving the addresses and salary structure of all its employees on its website,” asked the principal of a south Delhi school, which has a chain across NCR. “It could simply ask for names of the teachers and not addresses. This has gone too far. We have to consider the sensitive nature of the information and the CBSE also need to come clean on why they need the information. And why only the CBSE, why not the other boards? There should be a national policy and discussion on this matter.”