The chapters and topics that were slashed in the last academic year have been restored in the official curriculum for the academic session 2021-22.
In an important update for students, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided not to reduce the syllabus of classes 9 to 12 for the academic year 2021-22. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the CBSE had last year rationalised the syllabus by up to 30 per cent for classes 9 to 12 for the academic year 2020-21 to reduce the course load, the exams for which will be held in May-June.
According to the new syllabus released by the CBSE, the chapters and topics that were slashed in the last academic year have been restored in the official curriculum for the upcoming academic session, 2021-22. “The board already announced last year that the rationalisation exercise was a one-time initiative as teaching and learning through online mediums or alternative methods was fairly new then,” a CBSE official said.
Earlier, Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said, "In view of the extraordinary situation arising across the country due to Covid-19, CBSE has been advised to reschedule and reduce its syllabus."
CBSE has reduced the syllabus by 30 percent in various subjects after the Union Education Minister directed that the syllabus must be reduced.
According to the Union Education Ministry, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, concrete suggestions were invited from academicians from all over the country on the subject of syllabus reductions.
In its exercise to rationalise syllabus, the Board had dropped the chapters on democracy and diversity, demonetisation, nationalism, secularism, India’s relations with its neighbours and growth of local governments in the country, among others.
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