A high-level panel from the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in India has recommended that epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata be taught in schools as part of the history curriculum. The panel also proposed that the Preamble of the Constitution be written on the walls of classrooms in vernacular languages. Additionally, the panel suggested the inclusion of the Indian knowledge system, the Vedas, and Ayurveda in textbooks. The recommendations are part of the final position paper on social sciences and have yet to receive final approval from NCERT.
Contests over our complex past are unlikely to become less vexed. However, we must educate future generations of Indians to see history and the social sciences as tools of critical thinking
Even as Karnataka Chief Minister disbanded the Textbook Revision Committee and tried to pull down the curtains on the controversy surrounding syllabus revision, leader of the opposition Siddaramaiah on Sunday said that the revised syllabus .