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SC declines to vacate stay on new curriculum

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the government's application seeking to vacate the stay on the implementation of the National Curriculum Framework for Secondary Education, termed by many educationists as an attempt to "saffronise" the school syllabi.

"The application is dismissed. The order passed on March 1 read with March 22 shall operate pending final disposal of the petition," a bench, comprising Chief Justice S P Bharucha, Justice S V Patil and Justice H K Sema, said.

Moving an application for vacation of the stay on behalf of the National Council for Educational Research and Training, Solicitor General Harish Salve said the curriculum was approved after wide consultation with the educationists.

The court, in an interim order passed on March 1, had stayed the implementation of NCFSE after a public interest litigation was filed by Aruna Roy, B G Verghese and Meena Radhakrishna Tyabji.

They alleged that the decision to change the school syllabi was taken without consulting the Central Advisory Board on Education, an apex body set up to decide the national education policy.

The petitioners contended that the government had tried to sideline the CABE.

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