Education Ministry holds meeting to seek inputs on new curriculum

The Ministry of Education on 09 August, 2022 held an inter-ministerial meeting seeking inputs to reconfigure the curricular and pedagogical structure under National Curriculum Framework (NCF).

Senior officials and representatives of all ministries and important bodies, including NCERT, Election Commission of India, ICAR, and DRDO attended the session to deliberate the development of a new curriculum on lines of the proposed National Education Policy.

A senior MoE official stated, “The meeting focused on how ministries and organisations can contribute to the developmental needs and interests of learners at different stages. The officials present were first briefed about how a curriculum framework is prepared, what are its deliverables and what is expected from them.”

The key deliverables of NCF discussed at the meet included early childhood care and education, foundational literacy and numeracy, competency-based education, flexibility in choice of subjects in secondary classes, to list a few.