The parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports will maintain a gathering subsequent week on design and content material of faculty textbooks and eradicating distortions from them, in line with a discover issued by the Rajya Sabha Secretariat. It can even maintain a separate assembly to overview plans for addressing the training gaps brought on by the Covid-19 lockdown.
The panel will maintain a dialogue on January 13 with Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, and representatives of the CBSE and NCERT on the textbook reforms.
According to the discover, the subject of the dialogue is: “Reform in context and design of textbooks. Removing references to un-historical facts and distortions about our national heroes from textbooks. Ensuring equal and proportionate references to all periods of Indian history. Highlighting the role of great historic women heroes including Gargi, Maitreyi, or rulers like Rani of Jhansi, Rani Chanamma, Chand Bibi, Zalkari Bai etc.”
On January 12, the panel will maintain discussions with the Department of School Education and Literacy and representatives of CBSE, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan and Education Secretaries of Assam, MP, UP and J&Okay on “plans for bridging the learning gap caused due to school lockdown as well as review of online and offline instructions, examinations and plans for reopening schools”.
According to the discover, the conferences shall be held amid security measures corresponding to masks and social distancing preserving in view the pandemic.
