The Union education ministry has asked the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to put an annual system in place to review study material for school students and make the necessary changes before printing new textbooks ahead of every academic session, officials familiar with the development said.
NCERT publishes new textbooks before the beginning of each academic session though there is no fixed mandate to review content. In June 2022, the council had made some major changes in the textbooks as it rationalised the syllabi of classes 6 to 12 to “reduce the content load” on students in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
NCERT is revising textbooks in line with the new NCF, released last year as part of the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020. This year, the council has released new textbooks in line with NCF only for classes 3 and 6.