kolkata west bengal chief minister mamata banerjee took umbrage on wednesday over the cbses decision to drop topics such as citizenship federalism and partition in an effort to rationalise its curriculum amid the covid19 crisisshe appealed to the human resource development hrd ministry not to curtail important lessons at any costshocked to know that the central govt has dropped topics like citizenship federalism secularism partition in the name of reducing cbse course during covidcrisis we strongly object to this appeal hrdministry goi to ensure these vital lessons arent curtailed at any cost banerjee said in a tweetthe central board of secondary education cbse has rationalised the syllabus for classes 9 to 12 for the 202021 session by up to 30 per cent to make up for the academic loss caused due to covid19it notified the new syllabus for these classes on wednesday