To finalise the curriculum, textbooks, and learning material for classes 3 to 12, NCERT has constituted a committee that includes author and Infosys Foundation chair Sudha Murthy, singer Shankar Mahadevan, and economist and member of the Prime Ministers Economic Advisory Council Sanjeev Sanyal.According to the sources, the committee which has been formed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), a 19-member National Syllabus and Teaching Learning Material Committee (NSTC) will be headed by the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) chancellor MC Pant.According to the internal note issued by NCERT, NSTC will be working on the syllabus, teaching method and curriculum of classes 3 to 12. Later, the study material developed and finalised by NSTC will be then published by the NCERT.Manjul Bhargav, a professor of mathematics at Princeton University will co-chair the committee. The list of the members is long, which includes, mathematician Sujatha Ramdorai, badminton player U Vimal Kumar, chairperson of Centre for Policy Studies MD Srinivas, and chairperson of Bhartiya Bhasha Samiti Chamu Krishna Shastry.According to the 21 July NCERT notification, the new committee shall use the NCF-SE as the “reference point and the guiding roadmap for the syllabus and textbook developers for school education all over the country”.The “high-powered National Syllabus and Teaching Learning Material Committee” has been “empowered to develop the school syllabus, textbooks, and teaching-learning materials for classes 3-12 (and to appropriately revise the existing textbooks of class 1 and 2 to ensure a smooth transition from class 2 to 3)”, the notification stated.The NCERT syllabus which is in circulation was made in 2005 NCF. Apart from this, the sources also claim that government intends to introduce new books in 2024-25.
