Union Minister for Education, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan to address 61st Foundation day of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)

Union Minister for Education, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan will be addressing the 61st Foundation Day of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)  Today via video conferencing. MoS (Education), Shri Subhas Sarkar and MoS (Education), Dr. Raj Kumar Ranjan Singh along with Sh. Santosh Kumar Sarangi, Addl. Secretary, DoSEL, Prof. Sridhar Srivastava, Director, NCERT, and senior official of the Education Ministry and NCERT will also be present on the occasion.

As a premier national organization, the Council is committed to promoting excellence, equity, inclusiveness, and quality, in the arena of school education. The significant activities of the Council, spanning six decades of its existence, covers research, development of curriculum, textual and training materials (both face-to-face and online), and supplementary readers, aim to meet the needs of teacher educators, teachers, and students. The organization has significantly contributed to all deliberations and consultations of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, organized at all levels including the grassroots. Significant initiatives were taken up in eliciting benchmark information on student’s achievements in all States and Union territories that were collected with the help of the National Achievement Survey (NAS),.

Contributions were made in developing Learning Outcomes (LO’s) and in preparing e-contents in all subject areas covering all stages of school education, for concept clarification and a better understanding of subjects. Another milestone of achievement included the preparation of the ECCE Curriculum and guidelines. NCERT is presently working towards the development of the National Curriculum Framework for school education, early childhood care, and education, adult education, and teacher education. It is helping the States to develop their own State Curriculum Frameworks. During the pandemic time, NCERT developed an Alternative Academic Calendar for students of all classes and subjects so that their learning is not affected when the schools are closed.

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