Mohali, October 24
The Punjab School Education Board has decided to remove fairies, angels, devils, and gods from the syllabus of junior classes.
The move has been taken on the advice of the Punjab Tarksheel Society, which has submitted a detailed report on such content, available in the syllabus books of Classes I-VIII.
"The children should be taught with a scientific approach. They should not be fed on superstition," the society has informed the board authorities.
Board chairperson Tajinder Kaur Dhaliwal said the society's advice would be adhered to soon. "In fact, I have already issued instructions to subject experts to start removing the content in question in a phased manner,” said Dhaliwal.
She said such content could have an unscientific effect on the children's temperament. Jarnail Singh Kranti, president, Punjab Tarksheel Society, said almost all the textbooks except that of mathematics have such content.
“We prepared a detailed report and submitted it to the board with a suggestion to remove such content,” said Kranti. During examination of books, their team laid emphasis on content related to gods, fairies, angels and fictitious stories of emperors and queens, religions among others, he added.
On June 22, a meeting was held between the board officials and the members of the society in this regard.
“All these issues were discussed in the meeting. We are happy that the board has started working in this direction," said Kranti.
The Punjab School Education Board has decided to remove fairies, angels, devils, and gods from the syllabus of junior classes.
The move has been taken on the advice of the Punjab Tarksheel Society, which has submitted a detailed report on such content, available in the syllabus books of Classes I-VIII.
"The children should be taught with a scientific approach. They should not be fed on superstition," the society has informed the board authorities.
Board chairperson Tajinder Kaur Dhaliwal said the society's advice would be adhered to soon. "In fact, I have already issued instructions to subject experts to start removing the content in question in a phased manner,” said Dhaliwal.
She said such content could have an unscientific effect on the children's temperament. Jarnail Singh Kranti, president, Punjab Tarksheel Society, said almost all the textbooks except that of mathematics have such content.
“We prepared a detailed report and submitted it to the board with a suggestion to remove such content,” said Kranti. During examination of books, their team laid emphasis on content related to gods, fairies, angels and fictitious stories of emperors and queens, religions among others, he added.
On June 22, a meeting was held between the board officials and the members of the society in this regard.
“All these issues were discussed in the meeting. We are happy that the board has started working in this direction," said Kranti.
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