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Academicians accuse Jayalalitha for revenge on USE books
Posted on: 21/Jun/2011 12:00:12 AM
A group of academicians involved in the framing of the USE (Samacheer Kalvi) syllabus during the previous regime have questioned the Jayalalithaa government`s decision to include owners of two private schools in the experts panel constituted on orders of the Supreme Court to go into the content of the textbooks.
The group said the panel had no representation of academicians, but the government has appointed matriculation school owners, who have been opposing Samacheer Kalvi, as experts. The purpose of the committee is to review the syllabus, not to decide whether Samacheer Kalvi should continue or not.
A Marx, senior academician and former professor of Presidency College, said the matriculation schools are against Samacheer Kalvi, fearing that it would be a threat to their profit-making education system.
The group also questioned the competency of the panel to review the curriculum, as it has bureaucrats and school owners and non-Tamil representatives from NCERT.
A Karunandan, former history professor of Vivekananda College, urged the government to not use the education system to take a political revenge on opponents. Karunandan, who was part of the preliminary committee that framed Samacheer Kalvi, said there was nothing wrong in removing the politically motivated parts planted by DMK ministry in the textbooks.
