The Allahabad High Court has ruled that sex education is corrupting for the children between 9 to 12 years, even when the data reveals the growing sexual abuse in the country and the prevalence of HIV in the age group.

Justice Shambhu Nath Srivastava made the observation while accepting an affidavit filed by the State Government, proposing that sex education could not be promoted under the guise of AIDS awareness.

Instead, the subject matter could be covered in home science, biology and chemistry texts.

The affidavit had come on a petition filed by Iqbal Husain, president of a parent teacher association of a Moradabad college demanding that history be made compulsory study. With the Government responding that the same was impossible, the Court had instructed that moral science teaching be made mandatory.

NOTE SUBMITTED TO PANEL
Left concerns on N-deal tabled

The Left parties on Friday submitted their joint note to the UPA-Left Committee on the implications of the US Hyde Act on the 123 Agreement, India’s foreign and security policies as well as self-reliance in the nuclear sector, DHNS reports from New Delhi.

The note covers various aspects of the issue. These include fears that the deal would not cover the entire nuclear fuel cycle and deny access to technologies relating to enrichment, reprocessing and heavy water production.
The document is also understood to have highlighted the Left concerns relating to the pursuance of an independent foreign policy by the government.