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Education Reform Push: NCERT Creates New Committee for Curriculum & Materials
NCERT has reconstituted the 20-member high-level National Curriculum and Teaching Learning Materials Committee (NSTC) for textbooks.
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has constituted a new 20-member National Curriculum and Teaching Learning Materials Committee (NSTC) for preparing the textbooks. This committee comprises famous personalities like Professor V. Kamakoti, Director of IIT Madras; Raghuvendra Tanwar, President of Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR); and R. Venkat Rao, Former Vice Chancellor, National Law School of India University.
This was done by the NCERT following the criticism made by the Supreme Court regarding the mention of judicial corruption in the newly-released eighth standard social science textbook of NCERT. The content of the book was immediately removed by NCERT.
Recently, the court was informed about the formation of this committee, and the court also ordered for checking all previous textbooks of NCERT.
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According to NCERT officials, the committee also includes Professor Amarendra Prasad Behera, Joint Director of the Central Institute of Educational Technology, affiliated with NCERT.
Furthermore, NCERT has removed three members from the NCTC following the Supreme Court order. These include Michel Danino, former visiting professor at IIT Gandhinagar, M.D. Srinivas, Chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies, Chennai, and the late Bibek Debroy, former Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council.
According to NCERT officials, the committee has the authority to develop school curriculum and teaching-learning materials, including textbooks for grades 3 to 12.
