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NCERT does not differentiate between ‘India’ and ‘Bharat’: Govt | Education News

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The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) does not differentiate between ‘India’ and ‘Bharat, Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Annapurna Devi said in Rajya Sabha.

This statement was issued after members of Rajya Sabha, Sandosh Kumar P and Elamaram Kareem, had asked whether the government has received any recommendation from an NCERT panel to use the word Bharat where India is being used in the textbooks, and if it has been accepted. The members also asked “the rationale behind this idea of giving more importance to the word Bharat instead of India while the constitution is giving equal importance to both?”

In a written response to this, Annapurna Devi claimed that NCERT does not discriminate between the two. “Article 1 of the Constitution of India states that “India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States.” India’s Constitution recognises both ‘India’ and ‘Bharat’ as the official names of the country which can be used interchangeably. The NCERT duly acknowledges this spirit as enshrined in our Constitution and does not differentiate between the two.

“As we collectively move away from the colonial mindset and encourage the usage of the words in Bhartiya Bhasha (Indian languages), NCERT, an autonomous body under the aegis of the Ministry of Education involved in the preparation of school curriculum and textbooks, will also do its best in furthering the same,” the written response stated.

This query was raised a few months after an NCERT panel suggested that ‘India’ should be called as ‘Bharat’ in all Social Science textbooks upto Class 12. In addition to this, the panel also suggested some more changes such as highlighting Indian victories and replacing the ‘ancient history’ with ‘classical period of Indian history.

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“Currently there is no mention of post independence history in NCERT books, so we have suggested that historical events that took place from 1947 till now should also be introduced, and the number of hours allocated for pre-independence can be reduced,” the committee’s chairman Prof C.I. Issac told indianexpress.com earlier.



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