pune a 12member panel of academicians and other experts has been engaged by the akhil bharatiya vidyarthi parishad abvp to draft an academic syllabus to serve as an alternative to the central governments adolescence education programme aep the move is spurred by the rajya sabha committee on petitions recent report saying no to sex education in schools the aep launched in 2005 with the backing of the national aids control organisation naco focusses on safer sex as well as physical and mental development of students in the age bracket of 14 to 18 years the programme is currently being implemented at schools affiliated to the central board of secondary education cbse on april 2 a parliamentary committee on petitions headed by senior bjp leader m venkaiah naidu submitted a report to the vicepresident recommending that there should be no sex education in schools because it promotes promiscuity and indias social and cultural ethos are such that sex education has absolutely no place in itthe committee which is a crossparty group of nine rajya sabha members suggested that appropriate agespecific curriculum should be drawn up for scientific health education moral education personality development and character building among other things the committee observed that the aep curriculum was highly embarrassing and insisted that premarital sex together with sex outside marriage was immoral unethical and unhealthy speaking to reporters here on monday abvp joint organising secretary atul kothari said we welcome the parliamentary committees report as we have been fighting for the last two years against the governments move to introduce sex education in schools kothari said the abvps expert panel will work on an alternative syllabus that will be on the lines of the parliamentary committees recommendations he said the panel headed by delhibased academician dinanath batra will release the syllabus by the end of june we will push for its implementation by both the central and the state governments according to kothari the parliamentary committees recommendation comes as an endorsement of the opposition by 11 state governments including maharashtra and kerala to the aep organisations like the shiksha bachao andolan samiti and the abvp launched a sustained campaign against the sex education the committee conducted hearing in seven big cities of the country and received over 40000 applications he said adding that a memorandum containing more than 415 lakh signatures of people was also presented to the committee against introduction of sex education