The Union education ministry has asked the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to put an annual system in place to review study material for school students and make the necessary changes before printing new textbooks ahead of every academic session, officials familiar with the development said.
The council, senior officials in the education ministry said, has now been asked to review the content every year. “The ministry has told the NCERT that books should be reviewed on a yearly basis. They are soon going to put that system in place. It is important that when a student buys a book ahead of the new session, it has to be the updated version of that book,” one of the officials said, requesting anonymity. “So far, there was no mandate of yearly review of the textbooks.”
NCERT publishes new textbooks before the beginning of each academic session though there is no fixed mandate to review content. In June 2022, the council had made some major changes in the textbooks as it rationalised the syllabi of classes 6 to 12 to “reduce the content load” on students in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
It will take at least two years for all textbooks to be released for all classes in line with the new National Curriculum Framework (NCF), the official said. “It means that from academic session 2026-27, students across all classes will have new textbooks as per NCF.”
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