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The NCERT had removed lessons on the Gujarat riots, Emergency, Mughal history, and Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad, and references to Nathuram Godse from the syllabus for Class12
The NCERT website states that it is imperative to reduce content load on students in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The SGPC had last month alleged that the NCERT misrepresented historical details about Sikhs in its Class 12 political science textbook.
The meeting of the curriculum steering committee held on Tuesday had decided to prepare the special textbooks to teach the excluded topics like the RSS ban, the Gujarat riots, and Mughal history.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that "we need to de-link degrees from competency and envision a future where competency would prevail".
The State Council of Education Research and Training, Kerala will prepare special textbooks to teach topics omitted from syllabus by NCERT.
The NCERT has done the syllabus rationalisation after consulting 25 subject experts, claimed sources.
The NCERT has, however, claimed that no curriculum trimming has taken place this year and the syllabus was rationalised in June, last year.
The new guidelines have been finalised under the aegis of agencies like the UGC, AICTE, National Council for Vocational Education and Training, NCERT, and the Central School Education Department.
The NCF has recommended annual exams for Classes 9 and 10 and the semester system for Classes 11 and 12.
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