The Central Board of Secondary Education on Tuesday deleted chapters on federalism, citizenship, nationalism, and secularism from the poli...
The Central Board of Secondary Education on Tuesday deleted chapters on federalism, citizenship, nationalism, and secularism from the political science curriculum of Class 11 for the academic year 2020-’21. The revisions were made as part of rationalising the syllabus in view of the coronavirus pandemic, the board said.
Sub-sections including “why do we need local governments?” and “growth of local government in India” have also been removed from the curriculum. The revised curriculum along with the list of deleted chapters and topics has been uploaded by CBSE on its website.
The political science curriculum for Class 10 students was also restructured to remove chapters on democracy and diversity; gender, religion and caste; popular struggles and movement, among other sections.
These chapters will not be accessed in themselves but teachers have been asked to explain to the students of their relevance with respect to 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,” the CBSE said in a statement. “However, the reduced syllabus will not be part of the topics for internal assessment and year-end Board examination.”
The deletions were made on the direction of the Ministry of Human Resource...
