My Letter Written on 16 September 2013 to
Ms. Neelima Sharma, Consultant
(English)
CBSE, New
Delhi
Dear Ms.
Sharma
You must
forgive me for pointing out a glaring language error in your notification of 17
June 2013 informing schools about the scrapping of Lord of Flies by William Golding for class 12 English Core. The use
of ‘to’ in your expression
“This is to inform to all the
schools…” is absolutely wrong. The correct form will be “This is to inform all
the schools…”
As a
well-wisher of the CBSE and its millions of students I cannot help but feel
duty-bound to bring such matters to your kind attention—particularly because
you are English consultant to this educational behemoth.
With best
regards
Yours
sincerely
Hareshwar
Prasad Singh
17 June, 2013
NOTIFICATION
This is to
inform to all the schools affiliated to the CBSE that the long reading text /
novel – ‘Lord of Flies’ by William Golding prescribed for class XII English
Core subject in the CBSE Curriculum 2014 and 2015 has been dropped for
this session i.e. 2013-14 onwards. Instead there will be two questions from the
other long reading text/ novel ‘The Hound of Baskervilles’ by Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle - on plot, theme or incidents and characterization in the
final examination of March 2014. Hence, there will be no choice of novels in
class XII English Core.
Sd/-
(Neelima
Sharma)
Consultant
(English)
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