chennai a petition has been filed in the madras high court challenging the constitutional validity of the tamil nadu uniform system of school education amendment act 2011 filed by state platform for common school system general secretary p b prince gajendra babu the petition said the governments reason for putting implementation of the samacheer kalvi scheme on hold was flimsy and evasive pointing out that any policy decision of the cabinet had to be based on the recommendation of a specificallyconstituted expert committee the petition said no such committee had been appointed in this regardthe principal act received the assent of the governor on february 1 2010 and was brought into force with retrospective effect from november 30 2009 the petition said under section 3 of the act the uniform syllabus and textbooks were to be implemented in standards i and vi from 201011 and in standards ii to v and standards vii to x from 201112 the petitioner noted that 65 crore textbooks had already been printed as per the uniform syllabus at rs 200 crore and were ready for distribution for the coming academic year the decision to halt the implementation of the system would put the stock in the godown of tamil nadu textbook society on hold as it would proceed to print and publish another set of textbooks based on the old syllabusmany changes have taken place between 2005 and 2010 and one plan period has gone and another plan period with fresh target is in operation the common syllabus will reflect all those changes being so why should the government go ahead to reprint old and outdated textbooks the petition saidthe matter which came up for hearing before the first bench on wednesday has been adjourned to thursday