A Bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath asked the counsel, appearing for the Centre, to take instruction on the issue and posted the next hearing on August 16.
The court’s direction came on a plea seeking a direction to the Central government to “provide common syllabus and common curriculum to all the children aged 6-14 years”.
The plea, filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, also sought a direction to the Centre “to provide an authoritative textbook on ‘Environment, Health and Safety’ and ‘Socialism, Secularism and Nationalism’ for the children aged 6-14 years and a standard textbook having chapters on fundamental rights, fundamental duties, directives principles and the golden goals as set out in the Preamble...”