chennai the state curriculum framework commmittee met on tuesday to discuss the important issue of doing away with the blueprint method wherein the student follows a set format of questions and answers in their notes and dictated by teachers the meeting was part of series of similar gatherings to develop the new curriculum and address deficiencies in the school education system and was well attended with a large number of parents students and other stakeholders taking part a number of constructive and innovative suggestions were received which included teacher training and garnering teacher support for taking the curriculum forward the participants wanted the curriculum to be forwardlooking with suitable technological changes incorporated into the system said chairman of the curriculum framework committee anandakrishnan who was also the former chairman of iit kanpur and former vc of anna universitybesides this focus on physical and technical infrastructure was discussed he said this involves setting up of labs and providing computers and other kinds of technical support in the schoolsanandakrishnan also said teachers at each district level had had discussions prior to the meeting and had submitted their ideas in writing the meeting was also attended by district education officers and state council of educational research and training scert director arivoli among othersanandakrishnan said this was the third meeting being held after meetings in madurai and coimbatore members from chennai kanchipuram tiruvallur vellore krishnagiri dharmapuri thiruvannamalai and villupuram participated in the meeting held at agarwal vidyalaya higher secondary school vepery the series of meetings is expected to conclude on thursday at tanjavur the committee has also called for suggestions regarding the curriculum to be sent to tnscertdirectorgmailcom so that they can be considered by the department while framing it a committee meeting to review the suggestions and feedback will be held on september 4 following the consultative meetings