Under the 30% course reduction, social responsibilities of businesses and business ethics, role of businesses in environment protection, were left out from the course for the business studies paper, but only for this year.
UP Board Class 11 syllabus: Class 11 commerce students in schools affiliated to the UP Board will not get to study the social responsibilities of businesses and business ethics, as well as the role of businesses in environment protection, as part of their business studies paper this year, UP Board officials said. On September 18, the Board adopted a syllabus based on the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) for Class 11 commerce students. On September 24, through a gazette notification, the state government also decided to implement a reduction of 30% course in the syllabus for this pandemic-hit academic year (2020-21) that has seen schools forced to remain closed for a substantial period of the year.
Under the 30% course reduction, social responsibilities of businesses and business ethics, role of businesses in environment protection, were left out from the course for the business studies paper, but only for this year. Officials pointed out that the state government implemented the decision to cut the syllabus for all streams by 30% this year on July 20 itself and even listed the topics that would be covered for every class and subject. However, delay in issuing of the government order for the Class 11 commerce stream saw this process get delayed for them.
According to the finalized reduced syllabus for commerce students, Class 11 students will not be studying business services (banking, types of banks, work of commercial banks, e-banking and insurance, etc), and international business-2. Likewise, in accountancy, students will not study bank reconciliation statements in unit 3, provisions and reserves in unit 4, incomplete records in unit 5 and use and accounting under database management system in Unit 7.
However, according to the new syllabus, students will now have general Hindi and business studies and accountancy as compulsory subjects besides any two optional subjects out of economics, English, mathematics and computer, officials said.
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