Covid effect: NCERT plans to reduce syllabi for all classes from 2022-2023 session
New Delhi: With the Covid-19 outbreak casting its shadow on the education system leading to several disruptions, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is mulling reducing syllabus for all classes from the 2022-23 academic session.
According to the NCERT, the new textbooks are likely to be ready by March-end, before the start of the new academic session 2022-23.
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1280"]
According to the NCERT, the new textbooks are likely to be ready by March-end.[/caption]
Also read | Yellow alert in Delhi amid steady uptick in Covid cases; restrictions back
Since students faced several disruptions amid the online education, the need was felt to rationalise the syllabi and lighten textbooks for all classes. The content departments, which include internal and external experts, will be submitting amended syllabus on the basis of which the new textbooks will be designed.
Earlier, NCERT director Sridhar Srivastava had asked the heads of the departments to submit the report latest by December 28, 2021, by involving reviews of internal and external experts. The NCERT director also stated that the textbooks with proposed changes needed to be sent to the publication division for reprinting by January 1, 2022.
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1280"]
Social media[/caption]
Also Read | Covid-19 vaccination for children aged 15-18 years to start from Jan 3, says PM Modi
Earlier, the NCERT had set August 2022 as the deadline for the finalisation of the school curriculum, following which the development of textbooks were to commence.
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="770"]
Social media[/caption]
Underlining the need for the rationalisation of the syllabi and new textbooks for the 2022-23 academic session, Srivastava in his letter had stated said that in the context of the Covid pandemic, students across all stages of school education had struggled a lot to continue their learning through online and other modes.
-PTC News with inputs from social media
