The Franchise Mechanism

The Verification process is conducted in three phases. The first phase consists of physical verification of documents, site/ location of the project, number of rooms and all subjects of declaration, as given with the application. The next phase of verification confirms whether adequate arrangements have been made to start admission process and ready to operate. The third and Special-Level- Verification conducts tests of efficiency to intake students, proper management, feed-back by the parents and local authorities, percentage of results and overall assessment of the project.
After approval of the periodic verifications, the franchisee will be allotted with provisional- affiliation up-to standard-V for tenure of one-year. The special-level- verification will be conducted by the council, within 30 days from completion of the tenure, to evaluate the efficiency of the branch, withdraw the provisional-affiliation and enroll into permanent affiliation upto Standard- VIII and again it will be may be promoted upto Standard- X or XII. In case of negative assessment report, the provisional affiliation only upto Standard-V will be renewed year by year. However in case of applications for franchise form existing schools having above 3- years of operation, the process may lead directly to permanent affiliation upto Standard-X or XII. Such applicants have to submit copy of NOC/Recognition upto Class-VIII from relevant authorities of concerned state along with other documents.
In case of unsatisfactory results of secondary-level-verification, there is the provision of another grace period of 60-days, with the special request of the applicant, to make necessary arrangements for fulfillment of the short-falls. The Additional-Level-Verification will be conducted to evaluate the same after and within 30-days from completion of the Grace-period. If the proposal is rejected after all, No Fee paid to the council will be refunded.
Franchise-Fee and other ancillary fees are segmented on the basis of different economic zones as per the declaration of planning commission of India. Xavier’s Council of India has segregated such areas into five different zones such as (i) Zone-A- Metropolitan cities / NCR/ Equivalent areas having population more than 30 lakhs (ii) Zone-B - State Capital / Municipal Corporation, (iii) Zone - C - Municipality, (IV) Zone-D - NAC, (V) Zone-E – Gram-Panchayat.
The assigned Franchise-fee is payable at one shot in shape of Cash/DD payable at Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Normal procedure for franchise takes 3 to 4 month’s time. However, for existing schools the verification can be done at single phase subject to compliance of required documents. In this case the process may take 30-45 days time.