CBSE to train teachers for mandatory skill education from Jan 5: Check key details
CBSE will begin one-day, offline Capacity Building Programmes (CBPs) from January 5, 2026 to train teachers and school leaders for mandatory Skill Education in Classes 6–8, using NCERT’s Kaushal Bodh activity books. The move advances NEP 2020’s early skills vision. Here’s the schedule, key venues and what schools must implement—timetable hours, projects, assessment and the year-end Kaushal Mela.
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CBSE is moving skill education from “good idea” to classroom reality. Starting January 5, 2026, the board will roll out one-day, face-to-face Capacity Building Programmes (CBPs) for teachers and school leaders to support the mandatory implementation of Skill Education in Classes 6 to 8, using NCERT’s Kaushal Bodh activity books.
Under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, skill-based learning is meant to begin early, so that middle school is not just about absorbing content but also about learning how to work with hands, tools, people and real-life problems. For students entering Classes 6–8 in 2026, this is the point where “school” is expected to start looking a little more like the world outside it.
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What these CBPs are actually
The CBP is CBSE’s way of closing a gap it has openly flagged: Schools were already told to introduce the new competency-based skill textbooks, but many have not implemented them yet.
The January training is designed to ensure schools stop treating skill education as an occasional activity and start running it as a structured part of the weekly timetable.The programmes are being held with local Sahodaya School Complex support, and CBSE has kept the format deliberately practical: It is offline, runs for a full day, and teachers are asked to bring the Kaushal Bodh textbooks so the discussion stays rooted in the actual classroom material.
Who should attend
CBSE’s notification does not position this as a teacher-only exercise. It names directors, principals, vice-principals, coordinators and teachers as participants–a signal that implementation is expected to be planned and supervised at the school leadership level, not left to one staff member as “extra work”.CBSE’s Community Building Programme: Locations, schedule and moreCBSE’s schedule runs from January 5 to January 31, 2026, across multiple cities.
Each venue has a listed contact person, phone number and email, and teachers are asked to contact the venue school directly and confirm participation so logistics can be arranged. Here are the essentials teachers must know.
- Each CBP runs 9:00 am to 5:30 pm
- There is no fee
- No TA/DA is admissible
- Teachers should carry NCERT Kaushal Bodh textbooks
The key venues include Varanasi, Delhi, Gurugram Lucknow among others. Click here for complete details.