India, July 9 -- Union HRD minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has issued a series of tweets regarding the reduced CBSE syllabus. The minister has requested the people of the country to not "misconstrue" the exclusion of topics like nationalism, local government, federalism, and so on, and build a "concocted narrative". "A wider perusal of different subjects will show that this exclusion is happening across subjects," said Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank.

"There has been a lot of uninformed commentary on the exclusion of some topics from CBSE Syllabus. The problem with these comments is that they resort to sensationalism by connecting topics selectively to portray a false narrative," said the minister on certain media reports.

The minister...