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Priests divided people into Varnas, did not allow Shudras and women to study Vedas: Misleading claims about Brahmins removed in rationalised NCERT textbooks

OpIndia Staff -
The development comes a year after RTI activist Vivek Pandey filed a query with the NCERT, seeking written evidence for sweeping claims about Hindu priests, women and shudras in ancient India.
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Not Ramayana or Mahabharata, NCERT should include the Quran in textbooks because there is no greater book: Samajwadi Party MP Shafiqur Rahman Barq

OpIndia Staff -
SP MP Shafiqur Rahman Barq has raised the demand to include the Quran in the NCERT books, opposing Ramayana and Mahabharata
News Reports

NCERT denies reports claiming ‘Ramayana, Mahabharata will be taught as a part of history in schools’; details

OpIndia Staff -
NCERT is modifying the school curriculum to align with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, and the new NCERT textbooks are projected to be ready for the upcoming academic session.
News Reports

NCERT proposes replacing ‘India’ with ‘Bharat’ in books, also seeks to teach ‘classical history’ instead of ‘ancient history’

OpIndia Staff -
Bharat is an age-old name. The use of the name Bharat finds its mention in ancient texts such as Vishnu Purana, which is 7,000 years old, committee's chairperson CI Isaac said.
News Reports

NCERT given status of a deemed-to-be university, will become a research university with global collaborations: Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

ANI -
National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has been given the status of a deemed-to-be university, announced Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan
News Reports

NCERT forms 19-member high-level committee including Sudha Murthy, Bibek Debroy, Shankar Mahadevan & others to develop new school textbooks

OpIndia Staff -
NCERT has formed 19-member high level committee to develop new school syllabus and textbooks as per the NEP
News Reports

Endangering future of children in political quest: 73 academicians release statement supporting NCERT over textbook row, call it attempt to obstruct NEP

OpIndia Staff -
73 academics, including vice-chancellors of major institutions, released a statement opposing the controversy over NCERT books
News Reports

‘Periodic table have been made more age-appropriate, not removed’: Read the NCERT clarification over curriculum changes

OpIndia Staff -
On June 02, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) issued a statement on Twitter over the controversy about changes made in the science curriculum of class 10 specifically around the periodic table.
Opinions

NCERT needs an urgent overhaul: Here is how it pushes the rhetoric of pseudo-seculars

Sharmi Adhikary -
As a mother of a ten-year-old who will be subject to this forced conditioning, it does rankle and affect me to discover noxious rhetoric channeled by pseudo-seculars whose writings are incorporated in textbooks by the NCERT.
News Reports

Kerala govt decides to teach content deleted from NCERT books, SCERT to publish supplementary textbooks

OpIndia Staff -
After getting the go-ahead from the state government, the Education Department is planning to introduce supplementary textbooks for classes XI and XII.
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