The Congress on Friday hit out on the Union authorities accusing the Training Ministry of “sabotaging” the schooling of youngsters following a delay within the printing of Class 6 textbooks.
“Whilst the college yr has begun, the NCERT – the Nationwide (learn Nagpur) Council of Instructional Analysis and Coaching – has didn’t publish new textbooks for Science, Arithmetic, and Social Sciences for Class 6 college students,” Congress basic secretary Jairam Ramesh wrote in a put up on ‘X’.
Ramesh additionally alleged that the syllabus and the textbooks haven’t been finalised by the Nationwide Syllabus and Instructing Studying Materials Committee (NSTC) but and it’ll require one other 10 to fifteen days to print them out.
Congress basic secretary additionally claimed that the officers anticipate a delay of two months earlier than the books are made obtainable to the scholars.
The brand new textbooks have been to be taught in April and are but to hit the market, reported PTI.
Whereas Class 3 textbooks have been made obtainable, solely English and Hindi textbooks have been launched for Class 6 in the course of the tutorial session.
The Ministry of Training (MoE) fashioned the NSTC final July to kind new textbooks for Courses 3 to 12 with an formidable deadline in February.
Nevertheless, then NSTC determined to solely change the textbooks for Courses 3 and 6.
“For the tutorial yr 2024-25, new and fascinating textbooks can be launched in Courses 3 and 6. The textbook improvement work is within the ultimate part and 9 textbooks for Grades 3 and 6 are already obtainable. The remaining eight can be obtainable very quickly,” a senior Ministry of Education (MoE) official stated, in keeping with PTI.
“Both the rot runs deep, or the incompetence scales new heights each day!” Ramesh stated that NCERT is but to obtain the drafts of the brand new books for Social Science, Arithmetic and Science for Class 6 from NSTC.
On Thursday, Training Minister Dharmendra Pradhan reviewed the event of college textbooks by the New Curriculum Framework (NCF) at themeeting, reported PTI.
(with inputs from information companies)