According to the media reports, the panel has suggested replacing the name India with Bharat in the textbooks and introducing classical history instead of ancient history in the curriculum.
The regional and state councils of education across the country will function as the off-campuses of NCERT, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced while addressing a gathering at the 63rd Foundation Day celebrations of the body
The 33 academicians who have also asked NCERT to drop their names from political science textbooks include Kanti Prasad Bajpai, the former JNU professor who currently serves as the vice dean at National University Singapore; Pratap Bhanu Mehta, the former vice-chancellor of Ashoka University; Rajeev Bhargava among others.
The pandemic is over. There is no need to remove vital topics from the syllabus. How will students study chemistry in Class XI if they don’t know the basics?