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Sex education in schools opposed

Staff Correspondent

Raichur: The All-India Mahila Samskrutika Sanghatane (AIMSS) and the All-India Democratic Students Organisation (AIDSO) have decided to stage a State-wide agitation on Monday in protest against the introduction of sex education from the sixth to 12th standards in Karnataka.

Aparna B.R., secretary of the State unit of the AIMSS, told presspersons here on Friday that the Union Government in cooperation with the National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT) and the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) had prepared a syllabus to provide sex education to children between classes six and 12. She said owing to the influence of UNICEF and condom and contraceptive-manufacturing companies, the Union Government had taken a decision to introduce sex education in higher primary and high schools. It believed that the programme would help children learn about the human body and create awareness about AIDS, she said.

She said a glance of the booklets revealed that the Union Government had mooted a dangerous plan.

She said the issue had come in for discussion at the ongoing session of the State Assembly and the Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Basawaraj Horatti had promised to withdraw the proposal.

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