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'NCERT no longer a professional institution': Jairam Ramesh
The Daily Guardian
|June 18, 2024
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Monday criticized the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and said it was “no longer a professional institution” but a political tool for the ruling party.
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The comments by the Congress’ General Secretary incharge-of Communications were made in the wake of the National Testing Agency putting the blame on NCERT for the “grace marks” fiasco in the 2024 examinations of National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to medical colleges.
Jairam Ramesh said that the blame game only served as the NTA’s effort to draw attention away from its own “abject failures.”
“However, it is true that the NCERT is no longer a professional institution. It has been functioning as an RSS affiliate since 2014. It has just been revealed that its revised Class XI political science textbook criticises the idea of secularism as well as what it considers policies of political parties in this regard,” he said in a post on X.
This story is from the June 18, 2024 edition of The Daily Guardian.
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