Ncert Rationalisation News Today

High school students will have radically different textbooks soon, with several key subjects dropped from government-issue reading material that has sparked concern about their academic proficiency.

As per the latest media reports, NCERT has allegedly eliminated scientific topics such as Darwin's theory and the periodic table from Class 10 CBSE science textbooks

Evidence of our syncretic culture comes from various sources, including contemporary history.

Promises made by the BJP, public money, historical facts and several others have all evaporated into thin air. And even though millions of voters are scurrying around looking for them, all they have found so far is a big jumla.

Classroom teaching will continue to be exam centric. And yet possibilities remain. Although textbooks can change with every changing political regime, history cannot be wiped out. Teachers are thus one of the most important players here.

For the proponents of Hindu rashtra, Gandhi is the most formidable obstacle. Their latest tampering with the NCERT school textbooks is part of many manoeuvres being simultaneously carried out to finish him off forever.

While no changes have been made to this particular section of the Class XII political science textbook as part of NCERT's rationalisation project, the Akalis say the resolution only sought to promote federalism within the constitutional framework.

Why should one shed tears for the dropping of a chapter on Mughals when India’s history books gloss over Ahoms, reduce Cholas and Pallavas to insignificance, and mention the Vijayanagara Empire in passing?

The erased chapters are related to ‘Kings and Chronicles; the Mughal Courts (C. 16th and 17th centuries)’ from the book ‘Themes of Indian History-Part II’.