Why it is in the news
On 1 October 2026, Justice N.V. Shravan Kumar of the Telangana High Court asked the State education department and CBSE to explain what action they had taken against private CBSE schools allegedly imposing non-NCERT syllabi and textbooks and charging high prices for study material.
The exam angle
Syllabus: Group 1 Mains Paper-III, III-3: “Rights related to Health, Food Security and Education-Issues and Challenges”; II-2: “Fundamental Rights …”. Groups 2–4: Indian polity; education policy in Telangana.