heer Kalvi (Tamil: சமச்சீர் கல்வி) or Tamil Nadu Uniform System of School Education or Equitable education system is a Government of Tamil Nadu, India programme to integrate the various school educational systems within the state which has over 1.2 crore students in four streams of school education comprising about 45,000 state board schools, 11,000 matriculation schools, 25 oriental schools and 50 Anglo-Indian schools, with different syllabus, textbooks and schemes of examinations. Uniform System of School Education was implemented by Tamil Nadu Uniform System of School Education Act 2010 which paves way for quality education to all children without any discrimination based on their economic, social or cultural background. The new system of education was introduced for classes I and VI in the 2010 academic year.

[edit]Controversy

Ms.J.Jayalalitha's Government dropped the Samacheer Kalvi syllabus for the 2011-2012 academic year as the books had contents in praise of DMK'sleaders. But, the High court of Tamil Nadu ordered that Samacheer Kalvi must come into immediate effect. Tamil Nadu Government moved to Supreme court and the apex court refused to stay the order of the high court and insisted that the books need to be distributed on or before August 2, 2011.^[1]

On August 9, 2011, the Supreme Court of India has rejected Tamilnadu State Government's request to drop the Tamilnadu Uniform System of School Education and also directed the state government to implement the Uniform System of School Education (Amendment) Act within 10 days i.e., within August 19, 2011.^[2] The Supreme Court of India in its order said that any sort of objectionable material such as personal glorification, self publicity and promotion involved, could be deleted, rather than putting the operation of the Act 2010 in abeyance for indefinite period.