Schools drop 'Happiness', 'Deshbakhti' curricula

Authorities reportedly told to focus on subject education instead of extra curricula introduced by AAP government

- IFRAH MUFTI @ New Delhi

A week after Delhi education minister Ashish Sood announced that policies implemented by the previous government will not be continued, most government schools in the city have reportedly dropped the 'Happiness' and 'Deshbakhti' curricula and 'Desh ka Mentor' and 'Buniyaad' programmes, meant for the EWS (economically weaker section) students, from timetables.

In a virtual meeting chaired by the Regional Director and Deputy Director of the Delhi education department with all heads of city government schools on April 2, school authorities were asked to discontinue all these schemes.

School principals were verbally told to focus on subject education instead of the extra curricula introduced by the AAP government in the past decade, sources privy to the development said.