The new National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) Class 9 social sciences textbook includes a topic on the "Emergency," describing it as "one of the major challenges" faced by Indian democracy, an official from the institution confirmed on Thursday.
For the first time, NCERT has included a chapter on the 1975-77 Emergency in a Class 9 Social Science textbook. The lesson describes the period as a major challenge to Indian democracy and discusses the suspension of Fundamental Rights, censorship, political arrests and the restoration of democracy through the 1977 general election.
Appearing for the CBSE, Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati said the Board was prepared to respond to the petition and assured the Court that there was “no question of making it hard for the students.”
The Supreme Court on Friday recalled its earlier direction effectively blacklisting three academicians associated with drafting a controversial section on “corruption in judiciary” in the NCERT Class VIII textbook chapter “The Role of the Judiciary in Our Society”, while also withdrawing its observation that they had deliberately misrepresented facts.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday reviewed the availability, printing, and distribution of textbooks published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) for the ongoing academic session in a meeting.
The Central government on Friday informed the Supreme Court that it has constituted a high-level committee comprising former Attorney General K.K. Venugopal and former Supreme Court judges Justice Indu Malhotra and Justice Aniruddha Bose to prepare a revised version of the chapter on the judiciary in the Class VIII NCERT textbook.
Stating that it was disturbed by the chapter had been revised without disclosing the identities of those involved in rewriting it, a Bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipul M. Pancholi questioned how such a revision could take place without revealing the experts involved in the exercise and the process followed for its approval.
School is not merely a site that produces future doctors, engineers, or professors.
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) on Tuesday tendered an unconditional and unqualified public apology over the controversial chapter referring to corruption in the judiciary in its now-withdrawn Class 8 Social Science textbook.
Hitting out at the BJP over the NCERT textbook controversy related to the chapter on corruption in the judiciary, Samajwadi Party National President Akhilesh Yadav said that just as “a cough exposes a thief, a false apology exposes a criminal.”
