‘Saffronisation’ of education: Centre urges SC to be judge

The Centre today offered that it was willing to delete any part of the allegedly saffronised school syllabi that the Supreme Court finds &#1...

The Centre today offered that it was willing to delete any part of the allegedly saffronised school syllabi that the Supreme Court finds ‘‘objectionable’’.

Solicitor General Harish Salve made this offer before a three-judge bench on petitions alleging that the National Curriculum Framework for Secondary Education amounted to saffronisation of education.

Given the prolonged stay on the books based on NCFSE, Salve said that in the interest of students, the Centre was ‘‘prepared not to stand on technicalities’’. He requested the judges to consider the portions attacked by the petitioners and say whether there was anything objectionable.

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Counsel for petitioners C.V. Vaidyanathan alleged that the Government had shied away from placing NCFSE before the Central Advisory Board for Education (CABE), which is the ‘‘pivotal body’’ in the field of education, because of ‘‘religious overtones’’ to the syllabi.

The bench observed that the CBSE and NCERT could be allowed to go ahead this year while the Government reconstitutes the CABE.

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