Reintroduce excluded topics in NCERT: Student org

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: All India Democratic Student Organisation on Friday issued a statement on the removal of the periodic table, environmental sustainability and other topics from the National Council of Educational Research and Training syllabus, demanding their reinstatement. Aidso State Secretary Ajay Kamath condemned “the alarming development of removing democraticand scientific-oriented lessons from the NCERT syllabus.”

“Aidso calls upon all education loving people to come forward to defend the scientific, secular and democratic education, which was the dream of Renaissance thinkers and freedom fighters. Aidso urges the NCERT to reintroduce all lessons that will complement the all-round development of a student,” he said.

“The periodic table has been removed from the syllabus of class 10 and the chapters on environmental sustainability, energy sources and in political science textbook chapters that fall under Democratic Politics-I, 'Important Conflicts and Movements, Challenges of Democracy, Political Parties' have also been dropped. It is an attack on scientific and democratic education. People of the country have already condemned the government for abandoning lessons that are not in line with its ideology. Earlier, even the lesson on the theory of evolution was dropped.