Kerala restores NCERT-removed topics such as Gandhi’s assassination, Gujarat riots for Class 11, 12
NCERT had deleted these topic from Classes 11 and 12 syllabuses, ease of studying for students. The Kerala Government will distribute the new books on 23 August. State General Education Minister V Sivankutty has informed that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will inaugurate the book distribution programme at Cotton Hill School in Thiruvananthapuram .
The decision to restore the topic in NCERT books was taken by the Kerala government recently. “It’s a time when the process of curriculum reform has started at the national and state levels. Meanwhile, at the national level, under NCERT's leadership, many sections were deleted from the 6th to 12th standard textbooks.
Kerala had quickly responded academically to this. This exclusion has been made in the name of reducing the academic load due to covid but anyone who examine these books will understand that this cut is not to reduce the academic load but to protect some vested interests," V Sivankutty was quoted saying by news agency ANI. He further said that the state has taken up this discussion by putting national interest and academic interest first.
“Textbooks for classes 1 to 10 are produced by Kerala. So the changes made by NCERT in classes 6 to 10 at the national level do not significantly affect Kerala. But in 11th and 12th class, NCERT textbooks are used," he said, adding that the academic community cannot accept the extensive exclusion made in history, political science, economics and sociology textbooks.
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