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New school textbooks from 2024-25 as govt set to release fresh curricular norms for all levels under NEP

National Curriculum Framework, a set of curricular guidelines, is key component of new NEP. Books will be printed in 22 languages apart from English.

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New Delhi: Starting from the academic year 2024-25, school children will be studying from new, updated textbooks as the education ministry is all set to release the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for all levels in the coming months, ThePrint has learnt.

The NCF is a set of curricular guidelines, a key component of the new National Education Policy (NEP). So far, the ministry has released NCF for the foundational level, which is pre-school to Class 2. NCF for other levels will be released in the coming months, according to which the books will be updated, a senior education ministry official told ThePrint on condition of anonymity.

The books will be printed in 22 languages, along with English.

The process of developing the NCF is being led by an expert committee headed by former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K. Kasturirangan, who also helmed the shaping of the NEP 2020. The exercise is being carried out under the supervision of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), which works on the school-level curriculum.

Consultations are ongoing with 25 national focus groups to help design the new NCF. The one that is currently being used in India is from 2005.

On the basis of the NCF, textbooks for Classes 1 and 2 will be released by the end of the month, as the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has already adopted the guidelines in the foundational stage from the academic year 2023-24. 

Another education ministry official told ThePrint that all states except Tamil Nadu and West Bengal have submitted their position papers on NCF, where they have informed the ministry of their best practices and what they expect from the syllabus. 

“We are examining the (position) papers as of now. On the basis of that, best practices from all states will be included in the NCF. States can choose to adopt NCF as it is, or can make changes as per their own understanding,” she added.

According to a mandate document prepared by the NCERT, everything in the new curriculum will be designed keeping “Indian roots” in mind, with the aim of “instilling pride for the country” among students. It also aims to teach them gender equality and make them compassionate human beings, the document says. 

The first education official quoted earlier also said that once the new books are released, the government will also align the new syllabus with PARAKH (Performance Assessment, Review and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development), the new assessment platform that the government is in the process of launching. 

(Edited by Gitanjali Das)


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