New NCERT textbooks to be developed in 22 languages: Dharmendra Pradhan
Dharmendra Pradhan also said that the learning-teaching material “Jaadui Pitara” will be taken forward to reach out to every school in the form of open education resources.
Arpita Das | March 27, 2023 | 08:24 PM IST
NEW DELHI: Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan today held a high-level meeting on the new National Curriculum Framework and new textbooks based on (National Education Policy) NEP 2020, in New Delhi.
Secretary, School Education, Sanjay Kumar, Senior officials of NCERT and members of National Steering Committee on National Curriculum Framework attended the meeting.
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During the meeting, the minister asked to develop textbooks in 22 languages included in the 8th schedule of the Constitution. This will be in consonance with the NEP 2020 perspective of imparting multilingual education.
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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