Tag: NCERT

Redefining Indian Tradition Minus Christianity & Islam is Intellectual Dishonesty

I recently received information about a two-day national seminar organized by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) on the theme "The Continuity of Indian Knowledge Tradition."...

“Embarrassed” with textbooks: Suhas Palshikar, Yogendra Yadav ask NCERT to drop their names

Following recent controversial changes made to political science textbooks, the political scientists wrote to NCERT asking it to drop their names as chief advisors. We feel embarrassed that our names should be mentioned as chief advisors to these mutilated and academically dysfunctional textbooks,” they said.

UP Madrasa Board to introduce NCERT syllabus, no to NCPCR’s diktat on non-Muslim students

However, the controversial, even unconstitutional, recommendation of the NCPCR ‘directing’ non-Muslim students not to be educated at Madrasas was rejected

Now NCERT removes passages about caste and religious discrimination from social science books

The educational body says this is done to remove “overlapping or irrelevant” content and reduce strain on students after the Covid-19 pandemic

Madras HC expresses “dismay and anguish” as NCERT removes report on gender non-conforming, transgender children

Titled 'Inclusion of Transgender Children in School Education: Concerns and Roadmap', the report was taken down from website within hours of its publishing, allegedly owing to ‘external pressure’

Caste Struggle and Colonialism dropped from NCERT school textbooks

The rationale behind this, as given by another NCERT...

How textbooks teach prejudice

First Published on: October 1, 1999Forget RSS-run Shishu Mandirs...

Education with values

First Published on: January 1, 2001  During its first tenure,...

Teach RSS the Constitution, Mr Prime Minister

First Published on: February 12, 2016Modi to address the...

Chapter II – Policies, Curricula, Syllabi and Textbooks

Educational PoliciesEducational policies are prepared by committees set...

Training to Hate: The Ekal Vidyalaya Way

Archived from Communalism Combat,  April 2009 Year 15    No.139,...

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