The Madras High Court on Wednesday dismissed a public interest litigation petition which sought a direction to the State government to adopt the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) syllabus for State Board schools too, since the existing Samacheer Kalvi, according to the litigant, was not helping students clear competitive examinations such as the Indian Institute of Technology-Join Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) and Common Law Admission Test (CLAT).
A First Division Bench of Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy refused to entertain the case, at the stage of admission itself, on the ground that it was for the government and not the court to decide the right kind of school syllabus. The judges also said, the litigant, P.A. Josseph, who claimed to be president of the yet-to-be registered JJ party, had not cited any provision of law which mandates that State governments follow only the NCERT syllabus.
