The latest announcement from the HRD minister is that the CBSE will cut the prescribed syllabus by half. If done properly, it is a good idea. I have said many times that we teach too many unneccesary stuff in our endeavour to cover everything. There must be quality, not quantity.

As with many other government interventions, if they do a random cut in the syllabus, without asking experts, or by asking random babus to set the syllabus, we are in for trouble.