NCERT forms textbook panel for Classes 3-12; RSS affiliate founder, Fields medallist, Sudha Murty among 19 members

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Bibek Debroy, Manjul Bhargava and Sudha Murty. (Express File Photo)

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NCERT forms textbook panel for Classes 3-12; RSS affiliate founder, Fields medallist, Sudha Murty among 19 members

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Written by Raunaq Saraswat

The country’s apex advisory body on school education has initiated the final phase of developing new textbooks by establishing a 19-member committee responsible for aligning “school syllabus, textbooks, teaching and learning materials” with the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for Classes 3-12.

Fields medallist Manjul Bhargava, Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to PM Bibek Debroy, founding member of the RSS-affiliated Samskrita Bharati Chamu Krishna Shastry, philanthropist Sudha Murty, and singer Shankar Mahadevan are among its members.

As per an order uploaded on the website of the NCERT, the committee will also revise the textbooks of Classes 1 and 2 to ensure a smooth transition to the following grades. The committee will be headed by National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) Chancellor MC Pant. Bhargava, a professor at Princeton University, will be its co-chair.

The pre-draft NCF, shared in the public domain on April 6 for feedback, suggested a major restructuring of school education, recommending board examinations twice a year, a semester system for class 12, and freedom for students to pursue a mix of science, humanities, and commerce subjects, among others. The final report hasn’t been made public.

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Apart from Debroy, another person included in the committee from the EAC is economist Sanjeev Sanyal. The other members include former chief national badminton coach U Vimal Kumar; M D Srinivas, the Chairperson of the Centre for Policy Studies; Shekhar Mande, the former Director-General of CSIR and a distinguished professor at Savitribai Phule Pune University; Surina Ranjan, a retired IAS officer and former Director-General of the Haryana Institute of Public Administration; and French author and IIT Gandhinagar professor Michael Danino. Another professor who is part of the committee is Sujatha Ramadorai, who teaches Mathematics at the University of British Columbia in Canada.

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The panel also consists of four members from NCERT: Pratyusha Kumar Mandala, Dinesh Kumar, Kirti Kapoor, and Ranjana Arora. Rabin Chetri, the Director of SCERT, Sikkim, is also a part of it.