The school syllabus for students from class 1 to class 12 may be reduced by 10-15% in the next academic year, human resource development (HRD) minister Prakash Javadekar said on Wednesday, in a move that will make the curriculum less arduous for students.
The minister added that the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is working towards giving the final touches to a curriculum rationalisation programme which will apply to all schools affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education and state boards that follow NCERT syllabus.
In February, the minister announced that NCERT syllabus would be reduced in the next one or two years.
Read more of this in the interview taken by Neelam Pandey and published in the Hindustan Times....
