Uttar Pradesh: The state government will continue to publish textbooks for use by children in Classes 1 and 2 in UP government primary schools. The basic education department’s plan to phase in NCERT textbooks starting with the new academic session in April was rejected by the U.P. cabinet on Friday.
UP Government’s Plan to Introduce NCERT Textbooks in Primary Schools
The government believed that while NCERT textbooks covered topics at the national level, it was important for students to acquire a foundational understanding of their immediate surroundings. The cabinet decided that since this topic also had a state component, the state would be the only publisher of the textbooks.
State-Specific Education and Time Constraints
According to Vijay Kiran Anand, director general of school education, there wasn’t much time left to publish NCERT books before the new academic year began in April, therefore the request to begin NCERT books was simply postponed for this academic session. It will now be implemented beginning with the 2024–2025 school year, he stated. Anand stated that the National Curriculum Framework (NCF), which was recommended in the New Education Policy 2020, may be implemented starting in 2019. (April 2024).
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Impact on Students and Education System in UP
A proposal to introduce NCERT books for Classes 1 through 3 in government primary schools in Uttar Pradesh beginning with the academic year 2023–24 had previously been forwarded to the cabinet for approval. In U.P. Board schools, the NCERT books have already been introduced to Classes 9 through 12. NCERT books were to be introduced gradually, starting with Classes 1 and 2, then in Classes 3 to 5 starting in 2024–2025, and then in Classes 6 to 8 the following session. But, the cabinet has put a hold on all of these initiatives. The decision to introduce the NCERT curriculum into council schools was made in 2018, and it was intended to be introduced gradually from classes I through 8 between 2021 and 2022. However, the Covid-19 epidemic caused a delay.
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