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Uniform School Education : State to move Supreme Court today
Posted on: 13/Jun/2011 12:40:24 AM
The Tamil Nadu government will move the Supreme Court on Monday against an interim order of the Madras High Court staying the operation of an amendment introduced in the Tamil Nadu Uniform System of School Education Act for postponing the implementation of the ‘Samacheer Kalvi Thittam` (uniform system of education) in the State.
School Education minister C Ve Shanmugam held detailed discussions with senior advocates Guru Krishnakumar and Subramaniya Prasad and some Supreme Court lawyers in New Delhi on Saturday. Top School Education officials are also in Delhi.
On June 10, the High Court, while staying the impugned amendment, said that for Standards I and VI under the scheme, the syllabus which came into effect from 2010-11 would continue.
For other classes – Standards II to V and VII to X – the new syllabus which was to come into effect from this academic year would be implemented. It said the stay would not be a bar for the government to conduct a detailed study of the common syllabus and common textbooks.
It said no material was placed before it to say that the new textbooks under the uniform syllabus were either wholly erroneous or incorrect.
