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Preparations have started to reduce the syllabus by 30% in Rajasthan schools. It will take about a month to release the revised syllabus. However, Udaipur's State Institute of Educational Research and Training (SIERT) and the Board of Secondary Education Ajmer have been given the responsibility, while the Directorate of Secondary Education is monitoring it. Work has started on this only after the public announcement of Education Minister Govind Dotasara.
Director of Secondary Education Saurabh Swamy told Dainik Bhaskar that work has started to reduce the syllabus. It will take about a month. From which class which chapters will be less, it is yet to be decided. This work will take about a month.
Syllabus will be reduced like this
SIERT Udaipur will do the syllabus from class 1st to 8th, while the responsibility of class 9th to 12th has been given to the board once again. Like last year, SIERT will prepare a new syllabus by reducing the syllabus at its level this year also. Similarly a team of Board of Secondary Education Ajmer will also reduce the syllabus. The Directorate of Secondary Education will send the proposal to reduce the syllabus to the Additional Chief Secretary and he will put the final seal on it.
What will the school teach till then?
The chapters sent by the Education Department to the schools in the past will not be reduced. Along with this, oral instructions have been given not to reduce the initial chapter of the course. Instead of reducing chapters from one to five chapters of a book, chapters will be reduced from the back. Care is being taken not to dilute the chapters which are normally taught in the initial days in the school. It should not happen that what has been taught in a month, is removed from the syllabus later.
In this case, those chapters will be reduced, which are usually taught later. The chapters found in government schools under the Smile program will not be reduced.
Last year there was a mistake
While reducing the syllabus last year, it was not taken into account what would have been taught in the school. What have children read online? Not only this, some such chapters were reduced, without which further chapters could not be read. Especially the students of class XI and XII science suffered the loss of removing chapters in Physics without thinking. Similarly, in other classes also the chapters which were taught online were reduced. This time the directorate has clearly told SIERT and the board to be careful while reducing the syllabus.