Rajasthan schools to adopt NCERT syllabus from next academic year

The course curriculum will not be changed for Classes 10th and 12th for 2020-21. However, in 2021-22, the NCERT syllabus will be implemented in these classes also. Read to know more.

The Rajasthan government has decided to introduce National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) syllabus in the government and private schools affiliated by the state government from the next academic year for classes 6th to 9th and class 11th.

However, the Government also plans to extend the NCERT syllabus to the board classes 10th and 12th from the 2021-22 academic year. The course curriculum will not be changed for the academic year 2020-21 for Classes 10th and 12th.

The decision comes amid the ongoing tussle between the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and the ruling Congress party regarding the change of syllabus. After the new session began, the BJP has been accusing the ruling party of tampering with the history and glorifying only one family while belittling the role of freedom fighters. The Congress has hit back with the allegation by saying that BJP is saffronising the education system.

The state’s Minister of Education Govind Singh Dotasra said that Rajasthan is the first state in the country to reduce the burden of school bags. The children, now have to take one book instead of multiple books. He informed that the weight of books from class one to five have overall reduced from 5.9 kg to 2.2 kg. If the experiment is successful, then it will be implemented across the state for all classes from 1 to 12. He further said that the project to reduce the burden of school bags from class one to five has been launched from Jaipur.