New Delhi, April 30 -- The Union education ministry has asked NCERT to put an annual system in place to review study material for school students and make the necessary changes before printing new textbooks ahead of every academic session, officials familiar with the development said.
NCERT publishes new textbooks before the beginning of each academic session though there is no fixed mandate to review content. In June 2022, the council had made some major changes in the textbooks as it rationalised the syllabi of classes 6 to 12 to "reduce the content load" on students in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The council, senior officials in the education ministry said, has now been asked to review the content every year. "The ministry has told...