The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Sunday accused the Congress-led Punjab Government for its “criminal negligence” in finalising the syllabus and study material for History subject for Punjab School Education Board’s (PSEB) Classes XI and XII for the current academic year despite lapse of four-and-half-months, which would ruin current academic year of these students.
lambasting the Punjab Government and the PSEB, former education Minister and SAD leader Daljeet Singh Cheema said the Board is offering the syllabus and study material in installments and till date, only one chapter of history for Class XII had been released. “Since the first chapter itself was full of blunders, factual errors and indiscreet language offensive to the religious and cultural sentiments of all the communities, the Board conceded to make suitable amends,” he said.
Expressing shock, he said that the Board has only English version of first chapter of history subject for Class XI while overwhelming majority of students opt for Punjabi as medium of instructions in Punjab schools. “Thus, nearly 90 percent history students in this Class have no study material, not even one chapter of study material despite the students have to appear in their half yearly examinations in September and nearly half of the syllabus is normally covered by this month,” Cheema said.
He said perhaps, it maybe unparallel in academic world that not to talk of books, the Board has not decided on syllabus itself till mid of the session. “This seriously flawed approach has ruined the academic life,” he said, while pointing the students concern is the last priority of State Government which is disappointing.