HC notice to implead Director of School Education in plea

The Madras High court today directed that the Director of School Education be impleaded in a petition seeking a direction to reframe the school syllabus from the next academic year so as to ensure that the students learn all the 1330 couplets of ancient Tamil treatise Tirukural between sixth and 12th standard.
The petitioner S.Rajarathinam said government should introduce Tirukural (considered magnum opus of Tamil saint-poet Thiruvalluvar) as a separate subject so that they could learn it thoroughly.
Justice R.Mahadevan of the Court's Madurai Bench said the petitioner had made the Home Secretary and the Secretary of Tamil Nadu Development and Information department as respondents, though actually he should have made the Director of School Education as respondent.

The judge directed that the Director of School Education be impleaded as one of the respondents and issued notice.
The judge also said no doubt Tirukural touched all subjects and issues relating to the human being, and if one was thorough with it, he could be a complete man. However, the views of the Director of School Education should be sought and hence he should be impleaded.