The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected its plea for scrapping the uniform educational system brought in by the earlier DMK government and directed its immediate implementation. A three-judge bench of Justices J.M.Panchal, Deepak Verma and B.S. Chauhan dismissed the state's plea that the Uniform System of School Education Amendment (Act) brought into force by the DMK government was of sub-standard and was politically motivated.
The Apex Court also ordered that the act be implemented within 10 days. Immediately after assuming the power, the Jayalalitha government had moved an amendment to the Act on the ground that it was of sub-standard and the syllabus prescirbed was esentially done to promote the interest of the then DMK government.
The Madras High Court's order had struck down the amendment moved by the Jayalalitha government. The Tamil Nadu government had defended its decision to defer the implementation of the Act on the ground that it suffered serious deficiencies.
Senior counsel P.P. Rao, appearing for the State, said that the curriculum introduced by the previous DMK government lacked quality, standard and did not conform parameters fixed by the NCERT. The counsel said that the former Vice -Chancellor of Bhartidasan University, Professor Muthukarupan, on whose recommendations the Act was formulated, had complained that the syllabus lacked quality and did not fulfill the suggestions and guidelines prescribed by him. The state had challenged the high court's order on the ground that it was illegal and erroneous.
The High Court had also directed the State Government to distribute the textbooks printed under the Uniform System of Education to enable teachers to commence the class and to complete the exrecise by July 22nd. Tamil Nadu has over 1.2 crore students in four streams of school education- 45000 state board schools, 11000 matriculation schools, 25 oriental schools and 50 Anglo-Indian schools, all with separate syllabus, textbooks and schemes of examinations.
News Reported by AR
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