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.
Chapters on the lives and sacrifices of legendary war heroes Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, Brigadier Mohammad Usman, and Major Somnath Sharma have been added to the NCERT syllabus for the current academic year, the Ministry of Defence stated in a release on Thursday
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has added chapters on the lives and sacrifices of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, Brigadier Mohammad Usman, and Major Somnath Sharma in the recently published books for Class VIII (Urdu), Class VII (Urdu), and Class VIII (English), respectively.
According to senior officials in the Ministry of Education, the modules are currently under development and will be incorporated into school syllabi for Classes 3 to 12.
The NCERT’s newly released Class 8 Social Science textbook, Exploring Society: India and Beyond, views the medieval period through a sharper, more critical lens -- focusing on religious intolerance, political violence, and cultural contributions during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire.
In a move to aid the students of the country, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), on Monday, announced a 20 per cent cut in its textbook prices for classes 9 to 12 with effect from the upcoming academic year.
