But to get inputs on NCF from Kerala, TN, Bengal and Telangana: Govt

THE CENTRE has not but acquired inputs from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Telangana in revising the Nationwide Curriculum Framework (NCF), which would be the basis of future NCERT textbooks, the Ministry of Schooling knowledgeable Lok Sabha on Monday.

“NCERT has initiated the processes of improvement of Nationwide Curriculum Frameworks utilizing a bottom-up method the place in states and UTs are additionally concerned in offering their inputs drawing from grossroots ranges. Until now, besides Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Telangana, all states and UTs have come ahead to offer their inputs,” the ministry stated in a written response to a query from Congress MP Kodikunnil Suresh.

The NCF is being revised for the fifth time since Independence. Aside from 25 skilled teams on the nationwide degree, panels have been additionally shaped on the degree of the states and UTs to organize to suggest the required adjustments in numerous topics.

Accordingly, most states and UTs have forwarded their inputs to the Ministry of Schooling. The adjustments advised by BJP-ruled Karnataka have drawn expenses of “saffronisation” from Opposition events and civil society teams.

There have been allegations that classes on Bhagat Singh have been dropped from class 10 Kannada textbooks, which additionally discovered point out in Suresh’s Lok Sabha query.

“The Karnataka state authorities has knowledgeable that they’ve revised the sixth to tenth Social Science and 1 to tenth Kannada Language textbooks for the yr 2022-23. Whereas revising the textbooks, the chapter or idea associated to freedom fighter Bhagat Singh has not been expunged from any class textbooks. At current, Karnataka state authorities curriculum textbooks have the ideas about Bhagat Singh in seventh and tenth lessons,” the ministry responded.