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NCERT Is Recruiting For Year 2023, Apply Now
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SRINAGAR: The National Council of Educational Research and Training is inviting applications for the post of Junior Project Fellow.
There are a total of 11 vacancies for the given post. The appointment is up to March 31, 2024
The candidates will be selected based on the interview that will be held at Janaki Ammal Khand, DSEM, NCERT, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi. Eligible candidates should appear for walk-in-interview along with their relevant documents.
For the application process, the maximum age limit is 40 years and the relaxation for the ST/SC is by 5 years and for OBC by 3 years.
The qualification required for the recruitment includes:
1. Project Name: Identification of Indian Knowledge Systems in Literature for Inclusion in Science and Mathematics and Development of Learning Outcomes-Based Activities in Biology and Chemistry.
Physics and Mathematics at Secondary Level, master’s degree in Physics or any related discipline with a minimum 55 percent marks, degree /diploma in Education, knowledge of Computer Applications, knowledge of Sanskrit, National Eligibility Test (NET), at least six months Research experience in a related area.
1. Project Name: Development of Learning Outcomes based activities in Biology, Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics and Development of Audio- Video Resource in Chemistry;
Master’s degree in Chemistry or any related discipline with a minimum of 55 percent marks, degree /diploma in Education, knowledge of Computer Applications, National Eligibility Test (NET), and at least six months of Research experience in a related area.
1. Project Name: Centre for the Popularization of Science
Master’s degree in Botany/Agriculture Botany, Biotechnology Life Sciences/Environmental Science or any related disciplines with a minimum 55 percent of marks, degree /diploma in Education, knowledge of Computer Applications, National Eligibility Test (NET), at least six months Research experience in a related area.

The applicable candidates will be given a monthly salary of up to Rs. 25000. The salary for Non-NET applicable candidates will be Rs. 23000 per month.
For further interview details and the application process, click here
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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )
May 8, 2023
Reconsider Shifting Of DIET, NCERT Offices: Farooq Abdullah

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SRINAGAR: National Conference President and Member of the Parliament from Srinagar, Dr Farooq Abdullah has asked the Lieutenant Governor administration to reconsider shifting of DIET and JK-NCERT offices to the Government Boys High School premises in Sonwar.
According to a press note, Consequent to meeting a delegation of aggrieved locals led by the In Charge Constituency, Lal Chowk Ahsan Pardesi, Dr Farooq Abdullah wrote to the LG Sinha, asking him to reconsider the decision in view of the searing resentment from the locals.
“The delegation of locals from Indiranagar, Sonwar and Batwara met me yesterday at our Party Headquarters in Srinagar. It was brought to my notice that the offices of DIET and J&K SCERT are being shifted by the Education Department to the Government Boys High School premises, Sonwar Srinagar. It was stated that shifting of the said offices will not only hamper the academic as well as extracurricular activities of the students there, but is also going to affect the upgradation of the school to the Higher Secondary level,” the letter reads.
He further noted, “In addition to the above, the main cause of resentment by the locals against this decision of the government seems their apprehension that the ground of the said school, which is being used as a play field by the youth of the area since last fifty years, will not be available to them anymore for sports activities.”
Seeking immediate intervention of the LG into the issue, he said that the decision if implemented will have a negative impact on the overall psyche of the youngsters.

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

April 16, 2023
Farooq asks govt to reconsider shifting of DIET, NCERT offices

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Writes to LG, seeks his personal Intervention
Srinagar, Apr 15 (GNS): National Conference President and Member of the Parliament from Srinagar Dr. Farooq Abdullah wrote a letter to LG Manoj Sinha, impressing upon him to reconsider the government decision of shifting DIET and J&K NCERT offices to Government Boys High School premises, Sonwar Srinagar.
Consequent to meeting a delegation of aggrieved locals led by the In Charge Constituency, Lal Chowk Ahsan Pardesi, Dr. Farooq Abdullah wrote to the LG Sinha, asking him to reconsider the decision in view of the searing resentment from the locals.
“The delegation of locals from Indiranagar, Sonwar and Batwara met me yesterday at our Party Headquarters in Srinagar. It was brought to my notice that the offices of DIET and J&K SCERT are being shifted by the Education Department to the Government Boys High School premises, Sonwar Srinagar. It was stated that shifting of the said offices will not only hamper the academic as well as extracurricular activities of the students there, but is also going to affect the upgradation of the school to the Higher Secondary level,” the letter reads.
He further noted, “In addition to the above, the main cause of resentment by the locals against this decision of the government seems their apprehension that the ground of the said school, which is being used as a play field by the youth of the area since last fifty years, will not be available to them anymore for sports activities.”
Seeking immediate intervention of the LG into the issue, he said that the decision if implemented will have a negative impact on the overall psyche of the youngsters.(GNS)
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( With inputs from : thegnskashmir.com )

April 15, 2023
NCERT consulted 25 external experts for syllabus rationalisation: Edu Ministry

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New Delhi: The NCERT consulted 25 external experts and 16 CBSE teachers to carry out its syllabus rationalisation exercise as part of which portions on the Mughals, Mahatma Gandhi, his assassin Nathuram Godse, reference to Hindu extremists and the 2002 Gujarat riots among others were dropped from school textbooks, according to the Education Ministry.
Dropping several topics and portions from the NCERT textbooks has triggered a controversy with the Opposition blaming the Centre of “whitewashing with vengeance”.
At the heart of the row is the fact that while the changes made as part of the rationalisation exercise were notified, some of these controversial deletions weren’t mentioned in them. This has led to allegations about a bid to delete these portions surreptitiously.

The NCERT has described the omissions as a possible oversight but refused to undo the deletions, saying they were based on the recommendations of experts. It has also said the textbooks are anyway headed for revision in 2024 when the National Curriculum Framework kicks in.
“Aside from NCERT in-house experts, NCERT sought the expertise of subject experts from Universities/Organisations and practising teachers in all its activities related to Research, Development, Training and Extension for wider consultation,” the ministry had said in response to a written question in Lok Sabha.
Among the most contested deletions are from history and political science textbooks for which the NCERT consulted five and two external experts respectively.
“One round of consultation each was held with the experts, ” the Ministry had said in its response.
For History, the five experts who were consulted are Umesh Kadam, a professor of History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and a member secretary at the Indian Council for Historical Research, Hind College associate professor (History) Dr Archana Verma, Delhi Public School (RK Puram) teachers (Head of Department of History) Shruti Mishra, and two Delhi-based Kendriya Vidyalaya teachers Krishna Ranjan and Sunil Kumar.

For the political science textbook, the NCERT held two rounds of consultation with four experts. They were Vanthangpui Khobung, an assistant professor of political science at the NCERT’s Regional Institute of Education in Bhopal; Maneesha Pandey who teaches the subject at Hindu College and school teachers Kavita Jain and Sunita Kathuria.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 15, 2023
Tharoor slams govt over removal of Maulana Azad references from NCERT textbook

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New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday slammed the government over the removal of references to India’s first education minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad in the new NCERT class 11 political science textbook, calling it a “disgrace”.
References to freedom fighter and India’s first education minister Azad have been removed from the new class 11 political science textbook by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).
Tagging a media report on it, Tharoor, a former minister of state for human resource development, tweeted, “What a disgrace. I have no objection to adding neglected figures to the historical narrative, but deleting people, especially for the wrong reasons, is unworthy of our diverse democracy and its storied history.”

As part of its “syllabus rationalisation” exercise last year, the NCERT, citing “overlapping” and “irrelevant” as reasons, dropped certain portions from the course including lessons on Gujarat riots, Mughal courts, Emergency, Cold War, Naxalite movement, among others from its textbooks.
The rationalisation note had no mention of any changes in class 11 political science textbook.
The NCERT has, however, claimed that no curriculum trimming has taken place this year and the syllabus was rationalised in June last year.
“Certain changes not finding mention of in the rationalised content book could be an ‘oversight’,” NCERT Director Dinesh Saklani reiterated.
In the class 11 political science textbook’s first chapter, titled ‘Constitution – Why and How’, a line has been revised to omit Azad’s name from the constituent assembly committee meetings.

The revised line now reads, “Usually, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Patel or BR Ambedkar chaired these Committees.”
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 14, 2023
Maulana Azad’s erasure from NCERT books due to his Muslim identity: NCP

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Mumbai: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of attempting to ‘erase’ the name of India’s first Education Minister and Bharat Ratna, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, from history because he was a Muslim.
NCP national spokesperson Clyde Crasto said that the BJP-led government at the Centre is using the NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) to wipe out Maulana Azad’s identity and his glorious contributions from India’s education system.
Citing instances, he said a para in the first chapter of the old Class XI NCERT political science textbook said: “The Constituent Assembly had eight major Committees on different subjects. Usually, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Patel, Maulana Azad or Ambedkar chaired these Committees.”

“However, in the new version of the same textbook by NCERT, the name of Maulana Azad has been omitted and the same sentence now reads: ‘Usually, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Patel or B.R. Ambedkar chaired these committees’. This is truly unfortunate,” Crasto said.
Suspecting a systematic conspiracy to delete Maulana Azad from history, the NCP leader pointed out how last year the Minority Affairs Ministry had abruptly discontinued the ‘Maulana Azad Fellowship’, which was started in 2009 (by the former UPA government) to provide financial help to students from six notified minorities for a period of five years.
The NCERT comes under the Government of India which is currently led by the BJP, and therefore the question that comes to the mind is whether they are seeking to obliterate the name of India’s first Education Minister because of his religion, Crasto said.
“There appears no other reason why they would do this to the first Education Minister of Independent India and one of our leading freedom fighters. The NCERT must clarify and answer to the citizens why Maulana Azad’s name is missing in the new version of the textbook, and how it will rectify this error,” Crasto said.
Maulana Azad, a distinguished Islamic scholar, author, academician and a prominent freedom fighter, was elected as the youngest President of Indian National Congress aged 35, and later led the historic Khilafat Movement.

After Independence, Maulana Azad served as India’s first Education Minister for over 10 years, during which he laid the foundations for the country’s massive academic network. Acknowledging his contributions, his birthday – November 11 – is celebrated as National Education Day.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 13, 2023
Maulana Azad loses place in NCERT textbook

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India’s first Education Minister, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, has lost a place in the revised political science textbook published by the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT).
In the old Class 11 NCERT political science textbook, ‘Indian Constitution at Work’, Azad’s reference appeared in the first chapter ‘Constitution — Why and How?’.
A paragraph in the chapter read, “The Constituent Assembly had eight major Committees on different subjects. Usually, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Patel, Maulana Azad or Ambedkar chaired these Committees. These were not men who agreed with each other on many things. Ambedkar had been a bitter critic of the Congress and Gandhi, accusing them of not doing enough for the upliftment of Scheduled Castes. Patel and Nehru disagreed on many issues. Nevertheless, they all worked together.”

However, the revised textbook paragraph reads, ‘Usually, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Patel or B.R. Ambedkar chaired these Committees.’
This change omitted the significant contribution of Maulana Azad to India’s constitution drafting process.
Maulana Azad’s role in India’s independence
Azad played a crucial role in the elections for the new Constituent Assembly of India that drafted India’s constitution. In the election, he led the Congress and was an essential member of the assembly.
As Congress president, he led the delegation to negotiate with the British Cabinet Mission. Despite growing hostility from Jinnah, who described him as the “Muslim Lord Haw-Haw” and a “Congress Showboy,” Azad remained committed to Hindu-Muslim unity.
After Independence, Azad remained a close confidante, supporter, and advisor to prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. As India’s first Minister of Education, he emphasized educating the rural poor and girls.

Jammu and Kashmir’s conditional accession dropped
Besides Azad’s removal, the reference of Jammu and Kashmir’s conditional accession has also been dropped in the tenth chapter of NCERT textbook, ‘Indian Constitution at Work’.
The paragraph ‘For example, the accession of Jammu and Kashmir to the Indian union was based on a commitment to safeguard its autonomy under Article 370 of the Constitution.’ has been deleted.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 13, 2023
NCERT Erases JK’s Accession Paragraph

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SRINAGAR: The NCERT’s class 11 political science textbook has been revised by its authors who have removed a paragraph discussing the conditional accession of Jammu and Kashmir to the Union of India in 1947.
The previous version of the textbook mentioned that Jammu and Kashmir’s accession was based on a promise to protect its autonomy under Article 370 of the Constitution. However, the revised version of the textbook’s 10th chapter titled “The Philosophy of the Constitution” does not include any reference to Jammu and Kashmir’s conditional accession. The authors of the textbook have also removed a reference to Maulana Abul Kalam Azad from the first chapter.
It is important to note that Article 370 was abolished by the Indian government on August 5, 2019, and the state of Jammu and Kashmir was divided into two Union Territories, Jammu and Kashmir with a legislature, and Ladakh.
The older edition of the textbook stated that the Constituent Assembly had eight major Committees on different subjects, which were typically chaired by Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Patel, Moulana Azad, or Ambedkar.
Despite their differing opinions on various issues, they collaborated effectively. Ambedkar was critical of Congress and Gandhi, accusing them of neglecting the Scheduled Castes, while Patel and Nehru had their disagreements. However, the new version of the textbook only mentions that the Committees were usually chaired by Nehru, Prasad, Patel, or Ambedkar.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a prominent member of the Indian National Congress, was twice elected as Congress President in 1923 and 1940. He served as independent India’s first Education Minister. In 1992, Azad was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honour.

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

April 13, 2023
‘Irrational to omit key parts from NCERT books’: Teachers’ body

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New Delhi: The Democratic Teachers’ Front (DTF) on Friday criticised the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) for making changes in textbooks of Class 11 and 12 that include omission of some chapters on Mughals and colonialism.
The DTF refused to agree with NCERT’s submission that omitting chapters on colonialism and Mughals would not make much of an impact on students’ learning process.
The teachers’ body also did not back NCERT’s view that the latest change in syllabus would take “a certain extra pressure” off the students.

The NCERT has also cited the impact of Covid on students across the country behind the changes in syllabus — a submission the DTF did not accept.
DTF president Nandita Narain said most of the subjects in Class 11 and 12 are optional for CBSE students.
“If any student picks History in Class 11, he or she needs to develop a deeper understanding of the historical episodes in the next class as well,” she said, adding the NCERT’s claims of rationalisation and rationalisation of the curriculum have no merit.
DTF secretary Abha Dev Habib said the Constitution talks about development of the scientific perspective of the citizens, and “the NCERT’s latest move goes against this very idea”.
“… also, from this point of view, India’s pluralistic and inclusive nature for diversity cannot be saved. This approach would also eliminate any possibility of India emerging as the centre of science and technology. If ‘WhatsApp University’ is given a free hand to have its say in schools, colleges and universities in the same way, it will seriously affect Indian democracy,” she said.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 7, 2023
Mughal History Still Part Of Curriculum: NCERT Director

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SRINAGAR: After the issue of removal of chapters on Mughal History from National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) books sparked controversy, the education body’s chief, Dinesh Prasad Saklani called the whole issue a lie and clarified that the chapters on Mughals were not dropped from CBSE books.
Speaking to ANI, he said that NCERT is following the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, which emphasizes on reducing content load in education. We are currently in a transition phase and working towards finalising the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for school education. Textbooks will be printed in 2024 in accordance with NEP, and we are committed to implementing its principles. No content has been dropped at this time.
Calling the ongoing debate unnecessary, Saklani explained that there was a rationalisation process carried out last year due to the pressures posed by the COVID-19 pandemic on students everywhere.
Saklani said, expert committees were tasked with examining the books from standards 6-12, and they recommended that certain chapters could be dropped without affecting the students’ knowledge and reducing unnecessary burdens. However, this year no chapters were dropped.
Mughal history is still a part of the curriculum and those who have doubts should check the books themselves, Saklani added.

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

April 6, 2023