Beginning next academic session, information on Tsunami waves would be included in the disaster management curriculum of Class X, CBSE Chairman Ashok Gangly said in New Delhi January 2005. These would include lessons on how schools and students can coordinate with the community in the event of a calamity, he said.
"CBSE was the first education board in India to introduce lessons on disaster management as we believe that today's younger generation needs to learn about events, which society has never confronted before," he said.
While disaster management was introduced for Class VIII students as part of their social science curriculum in 2003, it was incorporated in Class IX lessons in the ongoing academic session.
"As the disaster management curriculum for Class X, to be started from the next academic session, was in the process of finalization, we decided to include information on Tsunami," Gangly said. Disaster management would account for 10 per cent marks in social science examinations and students would be required to do project work on community work, he said.