Context: The Ministry of Education has formed the National Steering Committee for the development of National Curriculum Frameworks on 21-9-2021.

Key Points

• The Centre has started the process to revise school textbooks.
• Tenure of the National Steering Committee will be three years from the date of its notification.
  Director NCERT shall assist the SC to complete its module.
• All the National Curriculum Frameworks would also reflect upon the implications of situations such as COVID-19 Pandemic on respective areas for future.

As per the perspectives of the NEP 2020, the Committee will develop four National Curriculum Frameworks:

1. National Curriculum Framework for School Education,
2. National Curriculum for Early Childhood Care and Education,
3. National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education,
4. National Curriculum Framework for Adult Education.

Terms of Reference of the Committee

• Discuss different aspects of School Education, Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE), Teacher Education and Adult Education keeping in focus all the recommendations of NEP 2020 related to these four areas for proposing curriculum reforms.
• Discuss the position papers finalised by the National Focus Groups on different aspects of all the above four areas.
• Draw inputs from State Curriculum Frameworks received on the Tech Platform for the National Curriculum Frameworks.
• Finalise National Curriculum Frameworks after incorporating suggestions received from various stakeholders, i.e., states/UTs and also in the meetings of Executive Committee (EC) and General Body (GB) of the NCERT and Central Advisory Board on Education(CABE).