Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday held a high-level meeting on new National Curriculum Framework and new textbooks based on NEP 2020, in New Delhi, and directed NCERT officials to develop textbooks in 22 languages included in the VIII schedule of the Constitution.
Secretary, School Education Sanjay Kumar, Senior officials of NCERT and Members of National Steering Committee on National Curriculum Framework were present at the meeting, during which they were asked to develop textbooks in 22 languages included in the VIII schedule of the Constitution. This will be in consonance with the National Education Policy - 2020 perspective of imparting multilingual education, the minister said.
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Pradhan also said that the learning-teaching material “Jaadui Pitara” developed by the NCERT will be taken forward to reach out to every school in the form of open education resources.
"There is a need to make it a mass movement so that innovative and creative youth will join hands to develop a variety of innovative learning-teaching materials," he added.
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