Jaipur, November 18, 2024.
School education department has formed a state-level committee to review the entire school curriculum being taught in the state, said officials on Sunday.
School education minister Madan Dilawar had earlier said that the school curriculum would be reviewed and “some undesirable topics and subjects being taught in the syllabus will be removed.”
As per the order issued by elementary education department, the committee will review “the content/ photographs/ drawings/ material compilation/ interpretation of the entire school curriculum keeping in view the provisions of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and the provisions of the State Curriculum Framework and the National Curriculum Framework and will submit its suggestions to the Rajasthan State Council of Educational Research and Training, Udaipur, within 30 days.”
Professor Kailash Sodani, Vice Chancellor of Vardhman Mahaveer Open University, Kota, has been made chairperson of the committee. Hanuman Singh Rathore, an educationist, will be vice-chairperson. D Ramakrishna Rao, an educationist with NCERT, Delhi, has been made advisory member, while Satish Kumar Gupta, OSD to Dilawar, will work as member secretary.
Former vice chancellor of Kota University and former member of Rajasthan Public Service Commission, Prof Pramod Kumar Dashora, former chairman of RBSE, Professor Bharat Ram Kumar, retired educationist Shyam Sundar Bissa, Jayantilal Khandelwal, and retired IPS Kanhaiya Lal Beriwal have been appointed as members. On Nov 14, a delegation of Jagdish Narayan Vijay and Surendra Godhra, led by Satish Kumar Gupta, visited Delhi and met Prof Dinesh Prasad Saklani, director of NCERT, and secretary Aman Sharma. In the meeting, they discussed the rules and legal provisions for curriculum review.
