In order to simplify the syllabus for the academic year 2020-21 and make up for the loss of teaching hours due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has reduced the syllabus for Classes 9 to 12 by 30%. Despite the HRD Ministry asking for the deletion of topics instead of entire chapters, the CBSE, on Tuesday, "completely deleted" chapters on federalism, citizenship, nationalism, and secularism from the political science curriculum of Class 11.
"Considering the importance of learning achievement, it has been decided to rationalize syllabus up to 30 per cent by retaining the core concepts", tweeted the HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank. "Looking at the extraordinary situation prevailing in the country and the world, #CBSE was advised to revise the curriculum and reduce course load for the students of Class 9th to 12th", he added.
The chapters that were removed include two units from the "Local Government". These include "Why do we need Local Governments?" and "Growth of Local Government in India". For Class 12, entire chapters such as "Security in the Contemporary World", "Environment and Natural Resources", "Social and New Social Movements in India", and "Regional Aspirations" have been removed from the Political Science syllabus. Besides, "Changing nature of India's economic development" and "Planning Commission and Five Year Plans" have been deleted from the "Planned Development" section.
Furthermore, "India's Relations with its Neighbours: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar" has been scrapped from the chapter on India's Foreign Policy. For Class 9, chapters on Democratic Rights and Structure of the Indian Constitution have been removed from the Political Science syllabus, while a chapter on Food Security in India has been completely deleted from the Economics curriculum.
As far as the Class 10 syllabus is concerned, chapters on "Democracy and Diversity", "Caste, Religion and Gender", and "Challenges to Democracy" have been removed. Teachers have, however, been asked to explain to the students the relevance of these chapters concerning the existing topics.
"The Heads of Schools and Teachers may ensure that the topics that have been reduced are also explained to the students to the extent required to connect different topics. However, the reduced syllabus will not be part of the topics for Internal Assessment and year-end Board Examination", reads an official statement from CBSE.
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