The state's ambitious project of offering affordable international schooling to government schools, will be named after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. A funding of Rs 10 crore will be issued by the state government every year to the Maharashtra International Education Board (MIEB) which will run these schools.

The Maharashtra government's education department formed MIEB earlier this year. The objective is to bring government schools at par with international standards. While the plan is to create 100 such schools by helping existing government schools to affiliate to MIEB, the first 13 Zilla Parishad (ZP) schools have done this.