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National Curriculum Framework: Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, New Education Policy
Development of New Curriculum For School will be led by Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, Details
On 21 September 2021, the Union Education Ministry convened a 12-member panel to create new curriculums for school, early childhood, teacher, and adult education.
Former ISRO chairman K Kasturirangan, who also chaired the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 drafting committee, will lead the 12-member National Steering Committee. The National Curriculum Framework (NCF) was last modified in 2005, during the UPA government, after being altered in 1975, 1988, and 2000.
Among the members are Mahesh Chandra Pant, Chancellor of the National Institute of Education Planning and Administration, Govind Prasad Sharma, Chairman of the National Book Trust, Najma Akhtar, Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, T.V. Kattimani, Chairperson of IIM Jammu, Milind Kamble, and guest professor at IIT Gandhinagar Michel.
According to the committee's mandate, it will establish four NCFs for school education, early childhood care, and education, teacher education, and adult education, taking into account all of NEP-2020's suggestions for these four sectors when suggesting curricular changes.
The new curriculums will not be established from the top-down, according to authorities, and district-level consultations will be undertaken after states and union territories build their own curriculum before the NCFs are implemented.
