NCERT News & Updates

[Sushubh]

New NCERT textbooks: Mughals, Delhi Sultanate dropped; 'sacred geography', Maha Kumbh added

The new textbooks released this week have been designed in line with the new National Education Policy (NEP) and the National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCFSE) 2023, which emphasise incorporating Indian traditions, philosophies, knowledge systems, and local context into school...

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[mhsabir]

Soon we will talk about Mughals as mythological characters.

 

[Sushubh]

Food, Poverty, Inequality Among Topics No Longer Part Of NCERT Textbooks

High school students will have radically different textbooks soon, with several key subjects dropped from government-issue reading material that has sparked concern about their academic proficiency.

www.ndtv.com

 

[Sushubh]

NCERT introduces 'criticism of secularism' in textbook: Parties disregard equality, prioritise minority

NCERT says that without these revisions, made in the Class XI political science textbook, the chapter on secularism came across as a 'justification of vote bank politics'.

theprint.in

 

[Sushubh]

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/rss-scan-blamed-for-book-delay-students-of-classes-v-and-viii-yet-to-get-ncert-texts-prnt/cid/2111314

 

[Sushubh]

NCERT social science textbook: Class 8 new book flags ‘brutality’ of Mughals, with no-blame disclaimer

The NCERT says the rationale for including them has been explained in a “Note on Some Darker Periods in History” and one of the chapters in the book includes a cautionary note that “no one should be held responsible today for events of the past”.

indianexpress.com

 

[Sushubh]

NCERT can now run its own courses: Centre gives nod for deemed university status

The new status significantly expands NCERT’s mandate beyond school curriculum design and brings it under the regulatory ambit of the UGC.

indianexpress.com

 

[Navjot Singh]

NCERT Circular Restricting Staff Movement Triggers Concerns Over Growing Surveillance, Administrative Control

Faculty members say the latest circular is part of a pattern wherein ‘discipline’ is prioritised at the expense of academic freedom.

thewire.in

 

[Sushubh]

NCERT’s new Art textbook covers up Mohenjodaro’s ‘Dancing Girl’

The bronze figurine, one of the most recognisable artefacts of the Indus Valley Civilisation, has appeared in NCERT textbooks for at least 25 years, including during previous NDA governments, without its nude torso ever being obscured.

indianexpress.com

 

[Sushubh]

NCERT delays Nazism, French Revolution by a year for students

NEW DELHI: The French Revolution, the Russian Revolution and Nazism will no longer be part of class IX student’s history syllabus. NCERT officials said these modern world-history themes will be taken up in class X as part of the secondary-stage progression, while the new class IX textbook will...

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