CBSE removes chapters on 'Democratic Rights', 'Secularism', 'Demonetisation' from syllabus
The deletions were made on the direction of the education ministry which asked the CBSE board to scrap the syllabus by up to 30 per cent for classes 9 to 12 for the academic year 2020-21 to reduce course load on students
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to "completely delete" chapters like - 'Citizenship', 'Nationalism', 'Federalism', and 'Secularism' for class 11 students. Whereas, for class 9 students, the board has 'fully excluded' chapters like - 'Democratic Rights', 'Constitutional Design', 'Popular Struggle Movements', and 'Challenges to Democracy'.
In addition to these, Class 12 students will not be required to study chapters on demonetisation, planning commission, five-year plans, social movements in India, and India's relations with Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
Source: https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/trends/story/cbse-removes-chapters-on-democratic-rights-secularism-demonetisation-from-syllabus-263449-2020-07-08
School students will no longer receive education on critical scientific topics such as evolution, the periodic table of elements, sources of energy, and environmental sustainability. These changes, affecting approximately 134 million students aged 11-18, have caused outrage among researchers and educators.
Source: https://www.livemint.com/news/india/drop-content-and-teach-less-experts-shocked-as-ncert-removes-periodic-table-evolution-from-school-textbooks-11685586361957.html
After being criticised for dropping certain texts from the English Honours syllabus, Delhi University said on Thursday that the content of the syllabus approved by the university’s Academic Council promotes the idea of “inclusiveness, diversity and harmony”. The syllabus is inclusive and diverse with works of renowned scholars of both national and international fame, without consideration of their “religion, caste and creed”, DU said.
In the Academic Council meeting on Tuesday, the fifth semester English (H) syllabus was stripped of works by two Tamil Dalit feminist writers, Bama Faustina Soosairaj and Sukirtharani.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/changes-in-english-syllabus-promote-inclusiveness-diversity-harmony-du/articleshow/85669132.cms
From removing a chapter on Mohammad Iqbal to dropping a paper on Economics of Discrimination; replacing the curriculum on Mahatma Gandhi with one on Savarkar in the undergraduate syllabus, the University of Delhi (DU) has been in “revision mode” for the past few months, revising syllabi for multiple courses for which it has faced considerable criticism from various quarters.
In May, the academic council of the university passed a motion to remove a chapter on Pakistan’s national poet Muhammad Iqbal, also known as Allama Iqbal, from a chapter titled ‘Modern Indian Political Thought’, which was part of BA Political Science sixth-semester syllabus.
Professors of Political Science and History at DU believe that Iqbal was never a threat to the national ideology and removing it from the syllabus after so many years is politically motivated.
The University of Delhi in a statement justified the decision to remove the unit on Iqbal saying that he had laid the foundation of partition of India and therefore should not be included in the syllabus.
Source: https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2023/Aug/21/mohdiqbal-outsavarkar-indelhi-university-syllabi-tweaks-not-an-academic-question-2607330.html
The above are just a sample of evil design by BJP ( Bogus Janata party) to institutionalize mistrust and hatred in educational sector directed towards its perceived ideological enemies. It is the greatest disservice by the BJP that has nurtured the next gen to play into the hands of polarizing forces.
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