CBSE curriculum to be reduced by 10-15% from 2019 session

NEW DELHI, JANUARY 8 : In a bid to lessen the academic burden on students, the Union Human Resource Development Minister, Prakash Javadekar announced the CBSE curriculum to be cut down by 10-15% starting academic year 2019-20. The aim is to reduce the overall curriculum by 50% so that students get more time for sports, value education, life skills education to achieve holistic development.

In a meeting of NCERT general council, the Ministry promises scientific reduction and plans to edit out the duplicate and redundant content, leaving concise and relevant books for students. The weeding will be done partly every year to achieve the target of reducing the syllabus by half by the year 2021.

According to media reports, the content of Social sciences will have more cuts than Science, Mathematics and Languages which only requires pruning of content. The Science syllabus for classes 11th and 12th especially does not need any reduction because students require more study material at that level. Also, more than eight crore NCERT books are planned to be printed this year which is more than the total books printed in the last two years.

Another step taken by the Ministry is to grade states on their performance indicators in education, based on 70 parameter to promote healthy competition to improve performance.