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 Supreme Court today issued a show cause notice to the NCERT director and the school education secretary to explain why action should not be taken over the publication of the Class 8 Social Science book with the controversial chapter on corruption in the judiciary.
The NCERT had, for the first time, introduced content on the alleged corruption within the judiciary and the mounting backlog of court cases in its revised Class-8 Social Science textbook.
The revised NCERT Class 8 Social Science textbook reportedly emphasises that several factors, including uprisings, mutinies in the British Air Force and Navy, and the diminished status of Britain after World War II, played role in India's independence.
In a statement issued here, it was said that the MoU will make NCERT textbooks available to the children of troops stationed in remote and far-flung parts of the country through the extensive network of Field Post Offices.
National Space Day commemorates the historic soft landing of ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 mission on the Moon’s South Pole on August 23, 2023, a feat that made India the first country to reach the lunar South Pole and only the fourth nation to achieve a successful moon landing.
