Question – On 21 September 2021, the Ministry of Education constituted the National Steering Committee under whose chairmanship to prepare the National Curriculum Framework?
(a) Najma Akhtar
(b) Govind Prasad Sharma
(c) Mahesh Chandra Pant
(d) Dr.K. Kasturirangan
Answer—(d)
Related facts—
- The Ministry of Education has formed the National Steering Committee(NSC) for the development of National Curriculum Frameworks(NCF) on 21-9-2021.
- NSC has formed under chairmanship of K Kasturirangan.
- He is an Indian space scientist who headed the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) from 1994 to 2003.
- Main functions of the committee —
- As per the perspectives of the NEP 2020, the NSC will develop four National Curriculum Frameworks- i.e., the National Curriculum Framework for School Education, National Curriculum for Early Childhood Care and Education, National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education and National Curriculum Framework for Adult Education.
- The NSC will 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.
- The NSC will discuss the position papers finalised by the National Focus Groups on different aspects of all the above four areas.
- The NSC will draw inputs from State Curriculum Frameworks received on the Tech Platform for the National Curriculum Frameworks.
- All the NCF would also reflect upon the implications of situations such as COVID-19 Pandemic on respective areas for future.
- While convening its meetings, committee(NSC) may invite subject experts, scholars, educationists, etc. as and when required and deliberate and decide upon the course of actions with the objective to meet the timelines of the strategy for the development of NCF.
- The Committee will finalise NCF 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).