Kerala To Include NCERT Omitted Portions In School Syllabus: Education Minister V Sivankutty

The Kerala curriculum steering committee provided recommendations to the state government regarding the inclusion of NCERT omitted portions in the school syllabus.

Kerala curriculum committee recommends measures to state government to include deleted NCERT portions.

Source : ABP Live

The Kerala State Council of Educational Research and Training's (SCERT) curriculum steering committee meeting on Tuesday announced the decision to incorporate the sections excluded by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) into the state school syllabus, as reported by ANI. According to the official statement, the curriculum steering committee held a meeting today to consider including the portions that were excluded by NCERT from the syllabus. The committee authorized the Public Education Minister, V Sivankutty, to discuss the matter with the government and make a decision.

Minister V Sivankutty has announced that the state of Kerala will incorporate the portions excluded by NCERT from the syllabus, including Mughal history, Gujarat riots, and Darwin's theory of evolution. He also added that the state government has the power to print textbooks independently, unless the central government prohibits them from teaching these subjects. This statement was made in response to the controversy surrounding NCERT's decision to exclude certain topics from school textbooks.

Reacting to the controversy surrounding NCERT's decision to omit certain portions from the school syllabus, minister Sivankutty said that the state government can print textbooks independently unless the central government denies the permission to teach these subjects.

 

Minister V Sivankutty had previously announced that the omitted portions from NCERT, including Mughal history, Gujarat riots, and Darwin's theory of evolution, will be included in the Kerala school syllabus.

 

The Education Minister said, "Kerala is moving forward by giving importance to constitutional and secular values. Kerala is of the opinion that the omitted subjects including the Gujarat riots and Mughal history should be studied."

 

"Kerala will examine how to teach it. Objections to the omission of these subjects shall be intimated in writing to the Central Government," he added.