NBSE to discontinue Environmental Education and Home Science

Our Correspondent
Kohima, July 9 (EMN): The Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) has decided to discontinue the subjects Environmental Education and Home Science as the sixth subjects at the secondary level.

A notification issued by the NBSE’s chairman Asano Sekhose on July 8 stated that the decision was taken by the governing body of the board.

 “However, the Environmental Education components will be integrated/ incorporated into other academic subjects,” it stated.

Further, it informed registered schools of the board that new permissions would be granted to any institution for the  introduction of these subjects from this academic session stating that the two subjects would be dropped as a course of study from the academic session 2022 in phases i.e., class IX in 2022 and class X in 2023.

“In lieu of the above two subjects, the board will identify new subjects which are vocational in nature. The new subjects will be notified in due course of time,” the notification stated.