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Civics Ch - 2 Understanding Secularism — Social Studies STD 8 — Question

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Question
Government schools often have students from different religious backgrounds. Re-read the three objectives of a secular state and write two sentences on why it is important that government schools do not promote any one religion?
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Answer

It is important that government schools do not promote any one religion because
(i) If government schools promote or prohibit any religion, then it will result in discrimination between the students belonging to different religious backgrounds.
(ii) India is a secular country and promotion of any particular religion by the government schools would violate the principle of secularism.

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