Central Board of Secondary Education today announced that it has decided to reduce its syllabus for class 9 to 12 by up to 30% in order to make up for academic loss amid novel coronavirus pandemic."Looking at the extraordinary situation prevailing in the country and the world, CBSE was advised to revise the curriculum and reduce course load for the students of Class 9th to 12th," said Dr.
Ramesh Pokhriyal, Union Minister for Human Resource Development.The reduction in the syllabus will be in terms of retaining the core concepts, the HRD minister added.Pokhriyal also added that he had received more than 1,500 suggestions from educationists across the country on the reduction of the syllabus under the hashtag #SyllabusForStudents2020.A.