TSBIE TAKES BACK DECISION ON SYLLABUS REDUCTION

A day after the Telangana state board of intermediate education (TSBIE) announced a 30 per cent reduction in the first and second years’ syllabus for the current year due to the four months of classes lost because of the lockdown, it has hastily took back the decision of cutting down the syllabus in the humanities stream.

In a release, the board said there was no question of removing lessons on national heroes, social reformers and eminent personalities. It said that while the syllabus for maths and science was reduced on the basis of CBSE’s recommendation, the ‘proposals’ for reducing the syllabus in the humanities should be treated as ‘under examination.’ The intermediate syllabus for the humanities is based on the state syllabus and any reduction in this will have to be approved by a competent authority, which has not been done yet.

The release of these proposals prior to approval of a competent authority is ‘unintended and premature’ and the reduction of the syllabus in each subject will now be discussed and intimated in due course.

It may be recalled that the board had on Tuesday removed topics like Join India Movement (the freedom movement in Hyderabad state), Telangana Praja Samithi (Separate Telangana state movementearly phase), non-cooperation movements (separate Telangana state movement- later phase) and popular jatras (fairs and festivals of Telangana), other than lessons on liberalism, individualism, communism, GST, etc in the intermediate first and second years’ humanities syllabi.

● IN A RELEASE, the board said there was no question of removing lessons on national heroes, social reformers and eminent personalities.