Haryana to introduce Choice Based Credit System for undergraduate education

Chandigarh, April 12: Haryana soon to give relax to the undergraduate students as it is going to introduce a unique way which will bring a smile on their faces that is Choice based credit system (CBCS).

The Haryana government said it has decided to introduce choice-based credit system (CBCS) and also revise the syllabus and workload in eleven subjects at the under-graduation level "in keeping with global scenario".

The subjects are economics, political science, psychology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science, botany, zoology, commerce, and geography, said an official spokesperson of the higher education department.

Committees comprising five to six members of the teaching faculties in each subject had been constituted and they would meet at Kurukshetra and Rohtak on April 14 and 15, said the spokesperson.

They would review the existing syllabi in the universities of Haryana, the neighbouring states as well as the model curriculum of UGC to make an assessment of the workload and evolve choice-based credit system, he added.