The government is very firm on promoting NCERT textbooks in CBSE schools: Kushwaha
The Central government has once again stressed upon the usage of National Council of Education and Research Training (NCERT) books in schools claiming that they do not have any mechanism to monitor the content that private publishers are coming up with.
On Monday, Minister of State for Human Resource Development (HRD), Upendra Kushwaha, said in response to a written question in Lok Sabha, "There is no mechanism to evaluate the quality of textbooks of private publishers. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has no mandate to prescribe or recommend the textbooks of private publishers in its affiliated schools."
"The government is very firm on promoting NCERT textbooks in CBSE schools," he added.
According to officials in the HRD Ministry, government wants more NCERT books to be prescribed in schools so that all schools can have a uniform syllabus and cases like the one where a Class 4 Environmental Science textbook taught students to "kill a kitten" as part of an experiment can be avoided. The issue had caught attention of the government and public after it went viral on social media. "NCERT books are published by a team of professors who have an expertise on subjects and that brings in more perspective. Whereas private publisher books are usually written by a single person, limiting the perspective," an official from NCERT said.
NO BAN ON ANYTHING IN BHU
There is ‘no ban on anything’ in the Banaras Hindu University (BHU), the government told the Lok Sabha on Monday after the issue of alleged restrictions was raised in the House. HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar made the assertion after a member said that girl students of the BHU were facing restrictions and discrimination. Replying to other questions related to education, Javadekar acknowledged that Indian educational institutions do not rank high globally. “There is scope for improving the ranking internationally,” he said.
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