Dharmendra Pradhan to launch National Curriculum Framework tomorrow

NEW DELHI: Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan will launch the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for Foundational Stage 2022 and Balvatika tomorrow at 11am.. Ministers of State (MoS) for Education, Annpurna Devi, Subhas Sarkar, and Rajkumar Ranjan Singh will also be present on the occasion.

Pradhan released the "mandate document" for a common curriculum framework under the new National Education Policy (NEP) in April this year.

NEP 2020 recommended the development of NCF in four areas -- school education, early childhood care and education, teacher education and adult education. For providing inputs for the development of these curriculum frameworks, 25 themes based on the perspectives of the NEP are identified under three categories. The NCF has been revised four times so far -- in 1975, 1988, 2000 and 2005. The proposed revision will be the fifth of the framework.

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The NCF includes the National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCFSE), the National Curriculum Framework for Early Childhood Care and Education (NCFECCE), the National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education (NCFTE), and the National Curriculum Framework for Adult Education (NCFAE).

The Government announced the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020 which recommends quality improvement of the system of education through the development of a National Curriculum Framework. The process of the National Curriculum Framework has been started through the constitution of the District Consultation Committees, State Focus Groups, and State Steering Committee, National Focus Groups and National Steering Committee etc.