Disrupted academic year: CBSE to reduce burden, crunch syllabus for Classes 9 to 12
(WorldNews India)

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to rationalise the curriculum for classes 9 to 12 for the year 2020-2021 to ease the burden on students in a disrupted academic calendar. The decision was announced by Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal on Twitter. “Considering the importance of learning achievement, it has been decided to rationalize syllabus up to 30 per cent by retaining the core concepts. Looking at the extraordinary situation prevailing in the country and the world, CBSE was advised to revise the curriculum and reduce course load for the students of Class 9th to 12th,” the minister tweeted in the afternoon. The board was likely to make this move and had asked...