A bench of Chief Justice MY Eqbal and Justice Sivagnanam struck down the amendments made by the Jayalalithaa government to defer implementation of the Tamil Nadu Uniform System of School Education Act.
The two-month old AIADMK government in Tamil Nadu suffered a setback on Monday with the Madras high court ordering the implementation of the Uniform School Education Syllabus for Classes 1 to 10 from the current academic year itself.
A bench of Chief Justice MY Eqbal and Justice Sivagnanam struck down the amendments made by the Jayalalithaa government to defer implementation of the Tamil Nadu Uniform System of School Education Act (Samacheer Kalvi) that ushered in a common school syllabus.
The uniform system of school education was brought in by the previous DMK government led by M Karunanidhi in an attempt to bring all schools in the state under a common syllabus. In Tamil Nadu, there were four streams viz state board, matriculation, Oriental and Anglo Indian, following their own syllabus.
The AIADMK government which came to power in May 2011 postponed the implementation of the revised syllabus saying that some of the text books contained portions eulogizing Karunanidhi and the DMK.
The court directed the Tamil Nadu government to implement the uniform syllabus from the current academic year onwards and distribute the relevant text books to the schools by July 22. The court also ordered the government to set up a panel of experts in three months to remove the discrepancies and inadequacies in the new syllabus.
Teaching in schools under the directorate of school education in Tamil Nadu have almost come to a standstill with the AIADMK government not issuing any directive to school authorities regarding the syllabus to be followed for the current academic year.
The high court order sets at rest, though temporarily, the controversy over the uniform system of school education.
Navaneetha Krishnan, the advocate general, said the government would appeal in the apex court and seek a stay of the high court order.
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