New Delhi: Coming a step closer to bring uniformity in curriculum across the country, students in a dozen states would read NCERT books in government-run schools from the coming academic session in place of state text books.

With this 31.3 per cent of the senior secondary level students across India will study books prepared by NCERT.

This became possible after the National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT) granted the copyright to 12 states to use its text books in their respective state board schools.

The states are Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Kerala, Punjab and Goa.

The move to grant copyright is in keeping with the mandate of National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2005. Its objective is to bring uniformity in course curriculum across boards and improve the quality of education.

The framework has been ratified by almost all the states.

The move would also do away with any disparities among the state boards and give students enough confidence to compete at the national level with ease, said an NCERT official.

For the record, several state boards have carried out a series of changes in their course curricula in line with the present mandate. The changes include bifurcating the course curriculum at the plus-two level and updating syllabus on a par with CBSE schools.
Source : PTI