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 At
the request of H.H the Dalai Lama, the Government of India,
in 1961, established the Tibetan Schools Society (now called
Central Tibetan Schools Administration), an autonomous body
regulated by the Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development,
to manage and assist schools in India for the education of
the children of Tibetan refugees.
The Governing
Body of the Central Tibetan Schools Administration (CTSA),
which is its main administrative authority is chaired by the
Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Human Resource Development,
GOI. Its members consists of four Indians (two representatives
of the Ministry of External Affairs; one representative of
the Ministry of Home Affairs; and the Secretary of CTSA) and
four Tibetans (Education Minister, Education Secretary, the
Representative at the Bureau of His Holiness The Dalai Lama,
New Delhi; and the Director of the Central Institute of Higher
Tibetan Studies, Varanasi).
There
are 28 CTSA schools whose enrolment is currently 9,991 students.
Six of these schools (CST Mussoorie; CST Shimla; CST Dalhousie;
CST Darjeeling, CST, Mundgod and CST Kalimpong) that in addition
to day scholars provide hostel and boarding facilities to
a total of about 1,700 students are known as residential schools.
The remaining 22 schools that do not have such facilities
are known as day schools. All services in the day schools
are provided free of cost. The CTSA also provides full school
fees for about 360 boarders in the residential schools; school
fees for the remaining 1,350 boarders are paid through the
DOE. In addition, the CTSA also runs 45 Pre-Primary schools.
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