Resources
Read the circulars yourself.
The three documents behind the skill mandates, as PDFs, in plain language.
- Documents
- Three, as PDFs
- CSL deadline
- 22 August 2027
- Equipment list
- Suggestive
- Kaushal Bodh
- Classes 6–8
Think Inside the Box - Try, Fail, Fix, Learn - Educators before equipment - Fit before ambition - Hardware is the reward - Creativity as a skill - Kept while it happens
The source documents
The circulars, plainly.
Skill-81/2025 · classes 6–8
CBSE's emphasis: learning from the doing, not the end product.
- 110 hoursa year, roughly 160 periods: two consecutive periods, twice a week.
- Three projectsa year per class, one per form of work: life forms; materials and machines; human services. Nine by class 8.
- Weightages, suggestedwritten 10% · viva 30% · activity book 30% · portfolio 10% · teacher observation 20%.
- Kaushal Melacloses the year. A school with a CSL “may utilize” it.
Was the deadline extended?
No. Always three years from Skill-75/2024: 22 August 2027 for existing schools, from the start for fresh affiliations.
Must we buy CBSE's equipment list?
No. Skill-13/2026 calls it “suggestive”. A vendor calling it compulsory is misreading it.
Does an ATL count as a CSL?
Different schemes: an Atal Innovation Mission grant, and a CBSE affiliation requirement with a space rule. They overlap; the comparison is on the CSL page.
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