New sex education module for Delhi will come in a month’s time

NACO had issued an advisory to all states seeking suggestions on revising its toolkit

NEW DELHI: Delhi may soon be the first state in the country to swap the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) sex education national tool kit with its own revised sex education toolkits.

This, after a tumult over the controversial contents of the sex education curriculum forced NACO to issue an advisory to all states seeking suggestions on revising its toolkit. Delhi own sex education toolkit-Yuva-had faced criticism over its contents and certain activities that were a part of it.

The State Council for Educational Research and Training revising the course content for Delhi will issue the new guidelines for the Yuva module in one month.

Dr PD Nayar, chairperson of the technical support committee, which is developing the revised Yuva module, believes that the new module would "avoid any controversy over the course by making it more expressive".

In the past, some organisations had raised objections to the contents of the Yuva module on the contention that objectionable flip charts depicting explicit images of sexual organs and controversial exercises deemed unfit for students had been included in the Yuva curriculum.

The revised curriculum is set to come clean on any such objectionable material. "Flip charts depicting explicit images of sexual organs had never been part of the Yuva curriculum but were mentioned in the NACO tool kit used by National Council of Education Research and Training across the country, "said Nayar.