‘Rashtriya Shiksha Shredder’: Rahul Gandhi to CBSE on dropping chapters from 2022-23 syllabus

NEW DELHI: Congress member Rahul Gandhi called the CBSE board as “Central Board of Suppressing Education” and “Rashtriya Shiksha Shredder” for shredding certain chapters and content from the CBSE Syllabus 2022-23. Recently, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) removed a chapter titled ‘The Mughal Court: Reconstructing Histories through Chronicles’ from the Class 12 history syllabus, and chapters on the Cold War era and the non–aligned movement, social and new social movements in India from the Class 12 political science syllabus.

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Rashtriya Shiksha Shredder pic.twitter.com/kQG2WwZ77C

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) April 25, 2022

“Rashtriya Shiksha Shredder,” Rahul Gandhi tweeted while sharing a picture referring to CBSE’s move of dropping some chapters from the 2022-23 syllabus.

In the picture shared by the Congress member, the CBSE board has been called as the “Central Board of Suppressing Education” and there is a shredder called the “Rashtriya Shiksha Shredder” or National education shredder and topics such as democracy and diversity, impact of globalization on agriculture, non-aligned movement, the Mughal Court, industrial revolution, poems of Faiz are being shredded. Out of the shredder are coming employment, communal harmony, and institutions as being shown in the picture.

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“Democracy and diversity,” a chapter from the Class 10 NCERT book, which deals with social divisions and inequalities on the basis of race and caste across India and the world, was also dropped from the CBSE new syllabus. The translated excerpts from two poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz in Urdu language under the “Religion, Communalism and Politics — Communalism, Secular State” section have also been removed from the CBSE 10th syllabus 2022-23. Topics of "impact of globalization on agriculture” from a chapter on 'Food Security' too have been dropped by the board.

According to CBSE, the modification in the new CBSE syllabus has been made as per the recommendations of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). But many teachers have questioned the removal of these chapters from the CBSE syllabus 2022-23.