New school curriculum framework in 2021

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 24

The government today said the new National Curriculum Framework (NCF) is expected to be ready by March 2021 with the process for the review of school textbooks and the way forward already initiated.

The Ministry of HRD said the NCERT would need to make changes to school textbooks in accordance with the NCF and integrate areas like Indian ethos, life skills into textbooks.

“Subject experts will initiate this process for school education and give interim report by December 2020. While redesigning textbooks, it is to be ensured that nothing but the core content is placed in textbooks. Also, the cognitive load of the textbooks is too high. Additional areas, such as creative thinking, life skills, Indian ethos and art, need to be integrated.