mumbai schools affiliated to the central board of secondary education cbse will now be able to look at their performance over the past few years at the click of a mouse the board has introduced saransh a comprehensive selfreview tool for schools saransh will enable a school to view its performance in comparison to its counterparts the tool will also equip a school with ways to diagnose the scope of improvement in its students teachers and subjects and take the necessary decisions to improve the same schools will be rated at a scholastic and coscholasticlevel based on the performance of students from classes ix to xii the tool will also provide a comprehensive picture of class x and xii performances since 2007 and 2009 respectively the tool aims to provide data to schools on a single platform where they can view their performance in comparison with other schools this will help schools evaluate themselves and give them an opportunity to identify their weaknesses and work on them said a cbse official apart from numbers the data will be provided in both charts and graphs to enable schools to understand easily city principals have welcomed the idea there is always a need for selfevaluation and assessment this tool will help schools introspect and work on areas they wish to improve on they will also be able to see the results said jose kurian principal dav school nerul however some principals are apprehensive about it through such a system we will be able to find out what is working better so it is a wonderful idea but it is very important that the schools take it in the right spirit or else it will turn into a rat race to reach the top schools must not indulge in malpractices to just better their ratings said deepshika srivastava principal rajhans vidyalaya andheri while saransh can currently be accessed only by schools through a user id and password cbse might also allow parents access to the data