Feb 03 2015 : The Times of India (Delhi)

SC notice on moral science in schools

New Delhi: TIMES NEWS NETWORK





The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre and CBSE on a PIL seeking its direction to include moral science as a compulsory subject in the school curriculum.A bench headed by CJI H L Dattu sought a response from the government on the issue raised by a practising advocate, Santosh Singh, who said that moral science must be taught at schools to inculcate values in students. “The state is under a constitutional obligation to endeavour to provide educational facilities which inculcate moral values from primary education to secondary education. But the state has failed in this primary and vital task of making students good human beings and (in) turn good citizens,“ she said in her petition.
She said that its non-inclusion as a compulsory subject in the school curriculum violates the very spirit of Article 25 of the Constitution.