SC seeks Centre''s response on making moral science compulsory

New Delhi, February 2

Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the Centre and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on a plea to make moral science subject compulsory in Class I to XII in schools across the country.

A bench comprising Chief Justice HL Dattu and Justice A K Siki, which was hearing a PIL filed by female lawyer Santosh Singh, issued notices to the Human Resources Development Ministry and the board.

The petition said that there was a rapid degradation of moral values in society where 'making money anyhow' was the sole motto of life and that society needed a value-based moral education system by humanising education and making students global citizens with universal values.

 "Issue a writ...and direct both respondents (Centre and CBSE) to include moral science in syllabus of School Education i.e. Class I to Class XII in order to include moral values and nurture national character in the national interest," the plea said.

“Keeping in view moral values vis-a-vis materialism, a new school curriculum needs to be revamped to include spiritual knowledge to enable students not to succumb to the pressure of participating in rat race of life which would not reduce him to the level of a rat,” the plea said.—PTI