Education Desk, AnyTV
Published by: Subhash Kumar
Updated Wed, 23 Feb 2022 08:02 PM IST
Summary
Dismissing the petition at an early stage, the bench said that the state government and not the court have the right to decide on the syllabus of the schools.
The Madras High Court on Wednesday dismissed a PIL seeking a direction to the Tamil Nadu government to implement the NCERT pattern in education and board schools in the state. A bench of Justice MN Bhandari and Justice D Bharat Chakraborty dismissed the petition. This petition was filed on behalf of a person named JA Joseph. He describes himself as the founder of JJ Party. This party is not yet recognized by the Election Commission.
In the PIL, it was requested that the court should direct the State Educational Authority to implement the NCERT syllabus in government and government funded schools from primary to higher secondary in Tamil Nadu like other states. The motive behind this is to prepare the students for the entrance, eligibility and employment examinations of all the central and other state governments. It has been said in the petition that at present the Samchir Kalvi system is not able to help the students to succeed in examinations like IIT-JEE, CLAT.
Dismissing the petition at an early stage, the bench said that the state government and not the court have the right to decide on the syllabus of the schools. The petitioner, who is the president of a party which is yet to be recognized, has not mentioned any law which seeks to implement only NCERT syllabus in state schools.
Expansion
The Madras High Court on Wednesday dismissed a PIL seeking a direction to the Tamil Nadu government to implement the NCERT pattern in education and board schools in the state. A bench of Justice MN Bhandari and Justice D Bharat Chakraborty dismissed the petition. This petition was filed on behalf of a person named JA Joseph. He describes himself as the founder of JJ Party. This party is not yet recognized by the Election Commission.
In the PIL, it was requested that the court should direct the State Educational Authority to implement the NCERT syllabus in government and government funded schools from primary to higher secondary in Tamil Nadu like other states. The motive behind this is to prepare the students for the entrance, eligibility and employment examinations of all the central and other state governments. It has been said in the petition that at present the Samchir Kalvi system is not able to help the students to succeed in examinations like IIT-JEE, CLAT.
Dismissing the petition at an early stage, the bench said that the state government and not the court have the right to decide on the syllabus of the schools. The petitioner, who is the president of a party which is yet to be recognized, has not mentioned any law which seeks to implement only NCERT syllabus in state schools.