Experts of top institutes to lsquorewritersquo curriculum

Jaipur | Wednesday | 13th March, 2019

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Government is targeting to complete the entire revision work by August-September in order to introduce from the academic session 2020-21. “Over 70% of the revision work will be a repeat of the revision carried out in the previous Congress rule (2008-13). Jaipur: The newly constituted textbook revision committee by the education department has decided to rope in academicians of premier institutes to rewrite the curriculum of senior secondary classes.The committee has been formed in response to the textbook revisions carried out by the previous BJP government. The experts from the institutes like Azim Premji University (Bangalore), Central Institute of English (Hyderabad), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Delhi University, Jamia Milia Islamia (New Delhi). The decision of taking help of experts was taken in a committee’s meeting held in Jaipur recently.Sources told TOI that changes in the curriculum will be made in tune with the NCERT..