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Chennai, June 27 (IANS) The nine-member experts committee set up to review syllabus and textbooks for rolling out uniform education system in Tamil Nadu is likely to meet Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Wednesday.

“The committee has met thrice till date. We will be meeting the chief minister on 29th,” C. Jaidev, founder and secretary of DAV Group of schools and a member on the experts committee, told IANS on the margins of a function here Monday.

Jaidev said the members had expressed their views at the committee meetings. “It will be not right on my part to say more. The matter is sub-judice,” Jaidev added.

The committee will submit its report by July 6 to the Madras High Court in line with the orders of the Supreme Court.

The experts committee is headed by Chief Secretary Debendranath Sarangi.

Besides Jaidev, the other members of the committee are: former director (Education), Central Middle Grade Education Board G. Balasubramanian, former principal of Lady Andal Matriculation School Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan, and principal and director of Padma Seshadri Group of schools Mrs Y.G.Parthasarathy. Two other members, K.Tripathy and Anil Sethi, represent the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).

The state education secretary is also a member and the state director of school education is the member secretary of the committee.

The apex court June 15 ordered continuance of the uniform education system for Classes 1 to 6 and constitution of a committee by the Tamil Nadu government.

The committee is to submit its report by July 6 to the high court, following which it would hear the case daily and decide the case in a week’s time.

The uniform education system is the common syllabus for students under matriculation level and the state board brought in by the erstwhile DMK government.

However, the AIADMK government decided to put on hold the implementation of the system by amending the Tamil Nadu Uniform System of School Education Act.