Bengaluru: After the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) reduced the syllabi for Classes 9 to 12 due to COVID-19 pandemic, the Karnataka government has followed the suit. The Department of Public Instruction has omitted the chapters on Mysuru rulers Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan in their attempt to reduce syllabus for state board schools by 30 per cent. Notably, the move is applicable only for the current academic year.
The Karnataka Text Books Society has made several omissions for the ease of students.
The chapters on Mughal and Rajputs’ history and teachings of Jesus and Mohammad have also been truncated.
A regular academic year has 210-220 working days. As per The Times of India, the syllabus has been revised in accordance with 120-140 working days for Classes 1-10.
Earlier this month, a controversy had erupted over the CBSE’s decision to omit topics like federalism, secularism, citizenship, etc while reducing the syllabus for Classes 9 to 12. The education board had issued a detailed clarification later, stating that topics claimed to be dropped “are either being covered by the rationalised syllabus or in the Alternative Academic Calendar of NCERT”.
“The rationalisation of syllabus up to 30 per cent has been undertaken by the Board for nearly 190 subjects of class 9 to 12 for the academic session 2020-21 as a one-time measure only. The objective is to reduce the exam stress of students due to the prevailing health emergency situation and prevent learning gaps,” it said.
Last week, the Congress in Uttar Pradesh expressed its concern over ‘deliberate and systematic’ deletions of chapters related to the freedom struggle and the party’s role in it from the Class 10-12 syllabi of the Secondary Education Board.
Source: Times Now
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