HC reserves order on USSE

Updated on: Friday, July 15, 2011

Madras High Court reserved its order on the controversial Uniform System of School Education (Samacheer Kalvi) of the previous DMK regime whose implementation has been deferred by the AIADMK government.

Guru Krishnakumar, Additional Advocate General representing Tamil Nadu in the Supreme Court appeared in the case and argued that the amendment (to the USSE Act) was to implement the legislation properly and state had every power to do so.

Arguing before a pision Bench, comprising Chief Justice E Y Eqbal and Justice T S Sivagnanam, he cited several Supreme Court judgments in support of his contention.

He said the previous DMK government did not appoint a committee on Samacheer Kalvi as directed by a pisional bench.

Since no timeframe was fixed for the implementation of the education system by the pisional bench, Krishnakumar wondered how the present government's (AIADMK) move could be seen as an attempt to delay the implementation.

Earlier, the government submitted the minutes of the committee meeting as ordered by the court yesterday.

AIADMK government is mired in a controversy over its decision to defer implementation of USSE. The apex court had turned down government's plea against High Court staying its amendment to USSE Ac 2010 to defer its implementation and had directed that USSE should continue to be implemented for Classes I and IV during the present academic year.

The Uniform System of School Education was formulated by previous DMK government.

HC reserves order on USSE

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