INTOLERANT INDIAN

President Pranab Mukerjee’s statement that there is no room for intolerant Indian is a sane advice. Dissenting opinions are being labelled as anti-national.The monster called intolerance is rearing its ugly head . The BJP has started spreading and imposing its divisive and communal ideologies. Its student wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Prashid is intimidating students over freedom to speech. Our secular image is being tarnished.

Prakash Hanspaul NEW DELHI: Class 12 students in Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) schools will not be able to opt for seven elective subjects and 34 vocational ones from the coming academic year.

Officials said the CBSE has withdrawn these subjects due to low-enrolment issues.

Schools have been advised to not offer philosophy, creative writing and translation studies, heritage craft, graphic design, human rights and gender studies, theatre studies, and library and information science as academic electives from the 2017-18 session.

However, students who opted for these subjects in Class 11 will be allowed to pursue them this year, and appear for board examinations too.

Subjects such as poultry nutrition and physiology, management of dairy animals, health education, communication, confectionary, music aesthetics, office communication, first aid and emergency medical care, and integrated transport operations have been removed from the vocational stream.

Students can check the entire list of withdrawn subjects by logging on to the CBSE’s official website.

Similarly, the board has remodelled the assessment scheme for schools offering vocational subjects as compulsory subjects under the National Skill Qualification Framework for Class 10 too. Under this, students will be able to take a vocational subject as their sixth subject – which will be an additional one.