Amid controversy over NCERT’s new class 12 historical past textbooks wherein parts about Mughal courts have been eliminated in UP faculties, Education Ministry sources on Tuesday said there aren’t any new modifications.
“This is old news, few chapters related to Mughal courts were removed last year in July from 12th study textbooks in a very scientific way as these chapters were overlapping in 6th and 7th study textbooks as well. As of now, nothing new has been implemented by NCERT. As far as UP board is concerned they might have made some changes but overall no new changes,” the Education Ministry sources asserted.
NCERT’s stand
“It’s a lie. (Chapters on) Mughals have not been dropped. There was a rationalisation process last year because due to COVID, there was pressure on students everywhere…Expert committees examined the books from std 6-12. They recommended that if this chapter is dropped, it won’t affect the knowledge of the children and an unnecessary burden can be removed…The debate is unnecessary. Those who don’t know, can check the textbooks..,” Dinesh Prasad Saklani, Director of NCERT said.
Changes have been introduced in early 2022
As half of its “syllabus rationalisation” train final 12 months, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), citing “overlapping” and “irrelevant” as causes, dropped sure parts from the syllabus together with classes on Mughal courts from its class 12 textbooks.
Many of these modifications have been introduced in early 2022 when the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) rationalised its syllabi in April.
Besides faculties beneath CBSE, some state boards additionally use NCERT textbooks.
Listing the modifications, the NCERT, in a notice, had said, “The content material of the textbooks has been rationalised for varied causes, together with overlapping with comparable content material in different topic areas in the similar class, comparable content material included in the decrease or greater courses on the similar topic.
It additionally said that issue stage, content material which is definitely accessible to college students with out a lot intervention from lecturers and might be realized by self-learning or peer-learning and content material which is irrelevant in the current context have been eliminated.
In class 12 political science textbook, pages on the subject ‘Gujarat Riots’ have been excluded from the chapter titled ‘Recent Developments in Indian Politics’.
The point out of the National Human Rights Commission report on the 2002 violence and the “raj dharma” comment by then Prime Minister Atal Bihar Vajpayee has been dropped from the textbook.
Also, chapters on Mughal courts in a historical past textbook, a poem on the Dalit motion and a chapter on the Cold War, are amongst the exclusions from the political science textbook.
UP undertake NCERT’s revised textbooks
Uttar Pradesh authorities faculties will undertake from this educational session the NCERT’s new class 12 historical past textbooks wherein parts about Mughal courts have been eliminated.
“We teach our students using NCERT books…whatever is there in the revised edition will be followed,” Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak said.
Additional Chief Secretary (fundamental and secondary schooling) Deepak Kumar confirmed the growth.
“We follow NCERT books and whatever is available in the revised edition, we will follow it in state schools from 2023-24 session,” Kumar advised PTI.
(With PTI enter)
