CBSE withdraws 7 vocational subjects of Classes XI, XII

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has withdrawn seven electives and another seven vocational subjects at the senior secondary level (Class XI and XII) with effect from 2017-18 due to “very low” enrolment in these subjects.

“Accordingly, the schools are advised not to offer these subjects at the senior secondary level from the forthcoming session of 2017-18,” the school board said, issuing notification on Thursday evening.

Philosophy; Creative writing and Translation Studies; Heritage Craft; Graphic Design; Human Rights and gender Studies; Theatre Studies; Library and Information Science are the seven academic elective that the school board has withdrawn.  

   Those seven vocational subjects which stands withdrawn are—Poultry Nutrition and Physiology; Poultry Products and Technology; Poultry Disease and their Control; Foundry Technology; Management of Dairy Animals; Milk marketing and Entrepreneurship and Dairy product Technology.