Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation was initiated by:

Concept: Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) is a school-based assessment framework that evaluates a student's scholastic and co-scholastic development through continuous, term-wise assessments rather than a single year-end examination. It was formulated as an evaluation reform to reduce examination stress and assess a student holistically across the academic year.

Application: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) introduced CCE at the primary stage (classes I-V) in 2004 and extended it to the upper-primary stage (classes VI-VIII) in 2006; it further strengthened and extended CCE to the secondary stage (beginning with Class IX) from the 2009-10 academic session, making it mandatory for its affiliated schools. CBSE is the examining/affiliating board that frames and enforces assessment policy for its schools, which is exactly the role required to initiate an evaluation scheme.

Cross-check: NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) is a curriculum and textbook-development body — it prepares the National Curriculum Framework and textbooks but does not itself mandate or initiate a board's evaluation pattern. NCTE (National Council for Teacher Education) regulates teacher-education programs, and SCERT (State Council of Educational Research and Training) is the state-level counterpart of NCERT for teacher training/curriculum at the state level — neither initiates a board-level evaluation scheme. Hence CBSE, the affiliating board, is the body that initiated CCE.