With a view to re-structuring the pattern of Secondary Education in West Bengal in consonance with the all India pattern of Secondary Education ( + 2 stage ) the State Government has established the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education, under West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education, Act 1975.

The Council is a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal, and is entitled to acquire, hold and dispose of property, to enter into contracts and to do all other things necessary for the purposes under this Act and shall by its name use and be used.