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Hello Jammu News at 7:18:00 PM 0

Chennai, Jul 25: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has filed an appeal in the Madras High Court challenging a single judge order mandating schools affiliated to CBSE to adhere to NCERT prescribed syllabus and books alone.

Admitting the appeal by the CBSE yesterday, a division bench of Justices M Venugopal and M Nirmal Kumar ordered issuance of notice to the National Council of Educational Research And Training (NCERT), Centre and directed the original petitioner advocate M Purushothaman to file counter by August 6.

The CBSE submitted that the appeal is only against the direction to prescribe only NCERT books and not any other books published by private publishers.

"We are not assailing the order against homework till class 2," it said.

The matter relates to a petition filed by Purushothaman seeking direction to the CBSE to ensure that all the schools under its purview follow only the NCERT prescribed syllabus books.

Allowing the plea by Purushothaman, Justice N Kirubakaran had directed the CBSE not to give home work to children up to class 2 as prescribed by the NCERT and strictly follow the syllabus and books provided by the council alone for other classes.

Challenging the order, the CBSE moved the high court. (PTI)
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Hello Jammu News at 5:31:00 PM 0

New Delhi, Jul 2: The NCERT has recommended opening schools in minority populated areas and giving their culture due representation in curriculum to address various problems like discrimination and harassment of minority community children.

The National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT) has also suggested that festivals related to religious minorities be celebrated in schools

Besides some "general issues of discrimination and harassment faced by children of minorities, minority children go through some other modes of discrimination like a different school and classroom environment, cultural and religious domination", according to a manual drafted for the purpose by the NCERT.

The council has also recommended sensitisation of all teachers to issues of cultural and religious diversity, especially in relation to religious minorities.

"Children of minorities at times find the prayers in the school assemblies and picture of Gods and Goddesses on the walls alien to them as unfriendly environment.

"Sometimes comments on food habits are found to be offensive by one or the other community. Some of the community members may find different uniform as undesirable," it said.

It recommended that due representation of minorities culture in curriculum and pedagogical processes.

Urdu medium schools should be established in Muslim concentrated areas where the language is likely to be the mother tongue of children, the manual said.

"Ensure option of learning Urdu as a second language and availability of Urdu teachers in such schools," it said. (PTI)
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Hello Jammu News at 12:43:00 PM 0


New Delhi, Jul 28 :  The RSS-affiliated Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas has denied reports in a section of media that it has ever recommended deletion of Rabindranath Tagore from the NCERT textbooks and has threatened to file a defamation suit against the concerned newspaper. In a statement here, the organisation said that by publishing such news - which are "baseless" and motivated, the newspaper has only tried to deflect attention. The letter sent to NCERT by Mr Atul Kothari on behalf of Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas only pointed out at certain limitations and lacuna in textbooks from class VI to Class XII. "A legal notice will be sent to the concerned paper," the statement said. Responding to a Zero Hour query from Trinamool Congress MP Derek O' Brien, Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said that the text on Tagore will not be removed from school textbooks. “We hail everybody and nothing will be removed,” he has said. For NCERT books, Mr Javadekar said that the government has asked teachers and others to give suggestions to correct or remove “any factual errors” in textbooks, and as many as 7000 suggestions have been received. “We will not do anything which will create some problem,” he has said. UNI

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