The country’s scientific community believes that students’ thought processes will be seriously handicapped if they are deprived of exposure to this fundamental discovery of science.
As part of its ”syllabus rationalisation” exercise last year, the NCERT, citing ”overlapping” and ”irrelevant” as reasons, dropped certain portions from the syllabus including lessons on Mughal courts from its class 12 textbooks
NCERT has received backlash for removing various chapters for Class 11 and Class 12 textbooks, particularly the chapters involving the Mughal Empire. However, defending its decision, top officials from NCERT has stated that the removal of certain chapters and revision of the syllabus has been done to ease the burden on students., Education News, Times Now