During the recently held examination, the Central Board of Secondary Education has taken a big decision regarding the controversial questions asked in the English question paper. CBSE has canceled the controversial questions. CBSE has canceled the disputed question on the feedback of the concerned stakeholders and the recommendation of experts, full marks will be given to the students for this.
According to the information, CBSE’s controller of examinations Dr. Sanyam Bhardwaj said that one question in one set of English language and literature paper of CBSE Class 10 Term-1 examination held on December 11, 2021, did not follow the guidelines of the board. has gone. Based on the feedback received from people and students, the matter was referred to a committee of subject experts. It has now been decided to leave these questions to the opinion of those experts. Full marks will be given to all concerned students for this passage. At the same time, to ensure uniformity and equality, full marks will also be given to all students for passage number-1 for all sets of question paper of 10th class English language and literature.
Talking about the question, the English subject examination of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Term-1 Board is in controversy. The description given on a passage in Section-A Reading of Set 002/1/4 of the English paper has been alleged to promote female orthodox thinking. Making this issue in the Lok Sabha on Monday, Congress President Sonia Gandhi had demanded the CBSE and the government to withdraw these questions, calling it a serious lapse of the Union Education Ministry. Earlier, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi had also accused the government of being anti-women regarding this issue. This passage tells about the lifestyle of teenagers aged 13 to 19, how they start living in their own world. When the woman in the family chooses her career by moving forward in the society on her own volition and gets a name-recognition in the society. Then the authority of the parents over the children starts decreasing in the family. Children are unable to decide which of the two to listen to. Women should obey their husband’s orders to maintain discipline in the family.
I urge the Ministry of Education and CBSE to immediately withdraw this question, issue an apology and conduct a thorough review into this lapse to ensure this is never repeated again: Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi in Lok Sabha pic.twitter.com/pGoAuRYC4l
— ANI (@ANI) December 13, 2021
Also, a woman, being a mother, will accept the way of her husband, only then will her young children obey their mother. Women’s emancipation has abolished parental authority over children. Many such sentences exist in this English paper, which give such interpretations. The passage refers to ideas from the past century, as well as the reduction of parental authority over children in the context of interpretations of changes in circumstances since the feminist rebellion in the 20th century.