July 28, 2011
The Supreme Court on Thursday extended the deadline for distribution of text books to students under the Uniform System of School Education (Amendment) Act, 2011 till August 5.
A three-Judge Bench of Justices J.M. Panchal, Deepak Verma and B.S. Chauhan passed the direction while dealing with Tamil Nadu government’s decision to scrap the curriculum approved by the previous DMK regime under the impugned Act.
During the day-long arguments, senior counsel T.R. Andhiarujina appearing for some of the associations which are in favour of curriculum, told the bench that the AIADMK government acted in undue haste due to political reasons.
“The amended Act was passed with undue haste on a single day and the Governor’s assent was obtained on the same day and it was clear that everything was done with lightning speed,” he said.
The arguments would resume on Tuesday.
The Jayalalithaa government had moved the court challenging the Madras High Court’s order which had struck down an amendment to the Tamil Nadu Uniform System of School Education (Amendment) Act, 2011.
The State had challenged the High Court’s order on the ground that it was “illegal and erroneous.”
Tamil Nadu has over 1.2 crore students in four streams of school education — 45,000 State Board schools, 11,000 matriculation schools, 25 oriental schools and 50 Anglo-Indian schools, all with separate syllabus, textbooks and schemes of examinations.
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