Supreme Court seeks Centre’s response on making Moral Science compulsory

The petition said that there is a rapid degradation of moral values in the society.

Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine if the Centre and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) could be asked to make “moral science” a compulsory subject in schools across the country in view of the “rapid degradation of moral values in the society.”

A bench of Chief Justice of India H L Dattu and Justice A K Sikri issued notices to the Human Resources Development Ministry and the CBSE on a PIL filed by woman lawyer Santosh Singh.

Singh has requested the court to issue a directive to the the central government and the CBSE to mandatorily include “moral science” in the curricula of Classes I to XII so as to “include moral values and nurture national character in the national interest.” She has pleaded for a suitable alteration in the National Education Policy too.

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As Singh began her arguments on Monday, the judges wondered whether the subject was not already in the school curricula. “We remember having studied it… it was there in the school when we studied. Is it not already there?” asked the bench. Singh replied that the subject has been discontinued now and that there was no mandate for schools, being run by the Centre or affiliated to the CBSE, to teach it. The court then agreed to examine the petition and sought responses from the Centre and the CBSE.

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As per the petition, there was a “rapid degradation of moral values in the society where making money anyhow is the sole motto of life” and “the fight against moral degradation” needed to begin at school-level.

Singh said that the state was under a constitutional obligation to make endeavours to provide educational facilities, which inculcated moral values from primary education to secondary education but it has failed in this primary and vital task of making students good human beings and turn good citizens.

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