Legal studies in schools in India

Legal Studies in schools

As per the following news Legal Studies can be introduced in std 8 to 12 std students in schools.For std 11 and 12 students Legal Studies can be in group with science, arts, commerce .This should be implemented from next academic year ie 2022-23 in Maharashtra.These students should be given at least 30 % seat reservation in LLB.For imparting legal education the persons with LLB qualification can be used on period wise contract salary basis in such schools in all medium.

Warora Dt : 22 March 2022-Vinay Dadmal , Dr. Radhakrushnan Colony, Warora-442907

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Government of India
Ministry of Education
21 MAR 2022 3:45PM by PIB Delhi

Legal Education

The syllabi and textbooks brought out by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) as a follow up of the National Curriculum Framework (NCF), 2005 adequately integrates the legal education concerns from upper primary to senior secondary stages of school education. In addition, some of the supplementary materials prepared by NCERT also focus on legal literacy. In the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) affiliated schools, teaching of Social Sciences is compulsory till Class X, which, inter-alia, includes knowledge about the basic structure of the legislature, executive and judiciary, including the basic framework of the legal system, the ways laws are created in India and basic coverage of the Constitution of India and the rights it grants. CBSE also offers an optional academic elective subject, namely, ‘Legal Studies’ in Classes XI and XII as fifth or sixth subject with any combination of subjects. Since, education is a subject in the Concurrent list of the Constitution and the majority of the schools are under the jurisdiction of State/Union Territory (UT) Governments, it is for the respective State/UT Government to impart the legal education in their schools.

The information was given by the Minister of State for Education, Smt. Annpurna Devi in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.

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