CHENNAI: After two months of uncertainty, more than 1.3 crore school students in the state will get to know what they will be studying, as the Supreme Court gives its orders on the Samacheer Kalvi case on Tuesday.
Students of classes 2 to 5 and 7 to 10 and their parents have been anxiously waiting for an end to the legal tussle that virtually stalled teaching in schools. The apex court will decide whether the amendment to the Uniform System of School Education Act, brought out by the AIADMK government in May will stay. The state government had appealed against the July judgment given by the Madras high court quashing the amendment to the Act.
Chief minister J Jayalalithaa said in the Tamil Nadu Assembly on Monday that the government would abide by the court verdict. She was responding to the statement by S Gunasekaran of the CPI, who contended that the quality of Samacheer Kalvi must be upgraded.
Jayalalithaa said the government was also in agreement with the proposal. "We have moved the Supreme Court and are awaiting its orders. We expect the order to be pronounced today. We will abide by the court verdict," she said intervening during the debate on the budget.
The state counsel argued that while the government was not averse to the implementation of Samacheer Kalvi in schools across the state, it would prefer to do so after a proper review of textbooks, which it said were not up to the required quality.
On August 4, the last day of hearing, the Supreme Court reserved orders and postponed the deadline for the distribution of books to August 10. While some matriculation schools in the state have been conducting classes using textbooks under the old matriculation syllabus, government-run schools have been waiting to get the textbooks from June 15, when schools reopened. More than 70% of school-going children in the state go to government schools.
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