In a bid to provide relief to students, the NCERT syllabus will be reduced by half from the 2019 academic session, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said.
The minister said the school syllabus was more than that of BA and BCom courses, and it needed to be reduced by half so that students get time for other activities for their all-round development.
"At the stage of development of cognitive skills, students need to be given full freedom. I have asked NCERT to reduce the syllabus by half and it will be effective from the 2019 academic session," he told Rajya Sabha TV in an interview.
Elaborating on the reforms in school education under consideration, the minister said examinations and detentions would be introduced.
(Published 24 February 2018, 19:50 IST)
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