The members of the committee include Sudha Murty, Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (EAC-PM) chairman Bibek Debroy, EAC-PM member Sanjeev Sanyal, RSS ideologue Chamu Krishna Shastry, and singer Shankar Mahadevan.
The central government is all set to revise the school syllabus and develop new NCERT textbooks. In line with the same, the government has set up a committee that has as members, author and philanthropist Sudha Murty, Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (EAC-PM) chairman Bibek Debroy, EAC-PM member Sanjeev Sanyal, RSS ideologue Chamu Krishna Shastry, and singer Shankar Mahadevan.
The committee is responsible for aligning “school syllabus, textbooks, teaching and learning materials” with the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for Classes 3-12.
As per an order uploaded on the website of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), the committee will also revise the textbooks of Classes 1 and 2 to ensure a smooth transition to the following grades, as reported by Indian Express.
The committee will be headed by National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) Chancellor MC Pant. Bhargava, a professor at Princeton University, will be its co-chair.
The textbooks currently in use are based on the National Curriculum Framework of 2005. These books were recently at the centre of controversy as the NCERT made sweeping changes including dropping several chapters, paragraphs, and even sentences from textbooks across subjects.
The new textbooks will be based on the new NCF, submitted to the Education Minister on July 28. The pre-draft NCF, shared in the public domain on April 6 for feedback, suggested a major restructuring of school education, recommending board examinations twice a year, a semester system for class 12, and freedom for students to pursue a mix of science, humanities, and commerce subjects, among others.
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