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No additional homework for children under class 2
Posted on: 23/Oct/2018 2:50:00 PM
If any CBSE school is found to assign home work to students up to class 2 or suggest extra/alternative text books other than what is prescribed by the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) for up to class 5 children, the school shall be disaffiliated, confirms Centre to the Madras High Court.
As a response to PIL that advocate M Purushothaman had filed, the union human resources development ministry had filed an affidavit that directs all the CBSE schools to abide by NCERT syllabus. It has clearly stated that no home work should be assigned for students under class 2. The Centre has insisted all the state government and Union Territories on disaffiliating all the CBSE schools that violate these instructions. On 5th October, an official communication is being sent across to all the government schools, it further adds.
As the Justice N Kirubakaran recorded this submission, he had also posted request for furtherance of hearing to October 24. According to the communication, the Children School Bag Policy has to be formulated that insists on reducing the total weight in the bags according to the guidelines proposed by governments of Telangana and Maharashtra.
As a move to thoroughly inspect the schools and surveille the likely usage of books that are not prescribed, special squads are set up.
Apart from this, under the department head, Ranjana Arora, a national level committee consisting of 6 members was formed. This shall frame the policy for school bags.
The Joint Commissioner of Kendriya Vidyalaya Samiti, S. Vijaya Kumar, and the joint commissioner of Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, A.N. Ramachandra, and the director of Chief Vigilance officer of CBSE and 2 other representatives of Telangana’s and Maharashtra’s, Joseph Emmanuel are the members included in the committee.
On 29th of July, across the state and union territories, the high court had ordered the Union HRD ministry to stop giving home works to children of class 1 and the students who study in any kind of affiliated schools, regardless of the board of education.
Furthermore, there will not be any additional subjects for class 1 and 2 other than math and language. For class 3 and 5, it shall only be language, EVS and math, abiding by the NCERT syllabus. So, according to the order issued, the centre has requested all the states and union territories.
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