In a move to aid the students of the country, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), on Monday, announced a 20 per cent cut in its textbook prices for classes 9 to 12 with effect from the upcoming academic year.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday called upon States to work together for building a collaborative education system.
In a stringent criticism of NCERT and its recent revisions in textbooks about Babri Masjid, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday said that the children should not grow up glorifying criminal acts.
The dependence of growth, development and progress on the quality of education is universally accepted.
A Manipur government official said that the state authority noticed this incorrect mentioning of the game as of Mizoram.
These deletions are part of a "rationalization" effort aimed at reducing the workload on students.
NCERT has its own procedure that when such a request is received, it forms a committee of exports and takes decisions based on the recommendations of that export committee.
Earlier on Saturday, Minister of State (MoS) for Education Subhas Sarkar said there was "misleading propaganda" about the removal of Darwin's Theory from the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) science textbook for class 10.
The committee is headed by Prof BK Panda, project director, center of excellence for studies in classical Odia.
Taking a dig at the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) for removing chapters from history books, Independent MP Kapil Sibal on Wednesday said that modern Indian history should begin from 2014.
