NCERT varieties 19-member excessive degree committee to develop new faculty textbooks

The National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has fashioned a 19-member panel to finalise textbooks and studying supplies for colleges underneath the National Education Policy. The high-powered National Syllabus and Teaching Learning Material Committee (NSTC) will develop faculty syllabus for Classes 3 to 12, and revise the present textbooks of Classes 1 to 2.

According to a notification dated twenty first July issued by NCERT, the committee can be headed by Mahesh Chandra Pant, the chancellor of the National Institute of Education and Planning in Administration. Professor Manjul Bhargava from Princeton University would be the co-chairperson.

The different 17 members of the NSTC come from varied fields, and a number of the notable names embody Infosys Foundation Chairperson Sudha Murthy, economists Bibek Debroy and Sanjeev Sanyal, singer Shankar Mahadevan, badminton participant U Vimal Kumar and many others.

The full checklist of the members is given under:

Shri M. C. Pant, Chancellor, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) – Chairperson
Prof. Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University – Co-Chairperson
Dr. Sudha Murty, Chairperson, Infosys Foundation
Dr. Bibek Debroy, Chairman, EAC-PM
Dr. Shekhar Mande, Former DG, CSIR, Distinguished Professor, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune
Prof. Sujatha Ramdorai, University of British Columbia, Canada
Shri Shankar Mahadevan, Music Maestro, Mumbai
Shri U. Vimal Kumar, Director, Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy, Bangalore
Prof. Michel Danino, Visiting Professor, IT_Gandhinagar
Smt. Surina Rajan, IAS (retd.), Haryana, former DG, HIPA
Shri Chamu Krishna Shastri, Chairperson, Bhartiya Bhasha Samiti
Shri Sanjeev Sanyal, Member, EAC-PM
Dr. M.D. Srinivas, Chairman, Centre for Policy Studies, Chennai
Shri Gajanan Londhe, Head, Programme Office, NSTC
Dr Rabin Chhetri, Director, SCERT, Sikkim
Prof. Pratyusha Kumar Mandal, NCERT
Prof. Dinesh Kumar, NCERT
Prof. Kirti Kapoor, NCERT
Prof. Ranjana Arora, NCERT

NCERT Chairperson Professor Dinesh Prasad Saklani stated that every member could have a job to play throughout the panel.

The committee will work to align the curriculum with the National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCF-SE) developed by the Okay Kasturirangan-led steering committee as part of the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.

As per the notification, the textbooks and different educating studying supplies will cowl all curricular areas, and the topics inside, which can be a part of the NCF-SE, as additionally their assist supplies resembling instructor handbooks. The textbooks and different educating studying supplies developed and finalized by the NSTC shall be printed and distributed by the NCERT.

The 19-member NSTC can be assisted by ‘Curricular Area Groups’ (CAGs) to develop textbooks and different educating leaming supplies for every of the topics included in syllabus. The Chairperson and Co-chairperson of NSTC will represent the CAGs with applicable consultants and with the assist of NCERT.

The notification says that the NSTC can be free to ask different consultants for recommendation, session, and assist as and when required. The NSTC can be assisted by a Programme Office set-up by the NCERT and NCERT will present all needed experience and assist as per the wants of the NSTC.

A senior ministry official stated that consultants from totally different domains have been chosen as members of the committee and that its chairperson will now represent varied Curriculum Area Groups (CAGs) by partaking totally different topic consultants.

A complete of 11 CAGs can be constituted to work on the 11 domains talked about in NCF-SE, like arithmetic, science, bodily schooling, and social sciences and many others. Officials stated that greater than 1,000 topic consultants can be engaged within the means of curriculum growth and textbook designing in varied domains and topics.

NCERT has additionally constituted a National Oversight Committee (NOC) to assist the works of the NSCT. The NOC can be chaired by Jagbir Singh, the chancellor of the Central University of Punjab.

The committee is predicted to finish the method by the tip of this educational yr, in order that new textbooks are prepared by the start of the nest educational yr. The authorities had earlier stated that it intends to introduce new textbooks from the 2024-25 educational session.