Supreme Court rejects plea to include history of North-East India in school curriculum

way2barak, Dec.2: While responding to a plea filed by Jyoti Zongluju, a bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha refused to entertain a public interest litigation (PIL) petition seeking changes to school curriculum by including chapters on geography and history of north-east India. The Apex Court noted that inclusion or deletion of chapters in school curriculum fell under the domain of Educational Policy.

Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud noted that children should be taught as little as possible and stress should be laid on opening up their minds. Instead, they were only being given an information overload, he added. The CJI-led Bench observed that framing a law on this issue was a matter of statutory discretion of Parliament. It further said that a writ of Mandamus cannot be issued to the law-making authority on such issues.