NCERT removes chapters on climate crisis, Indian monsoon, teachers urge body to reconsider

Frustrated by several recent changes in school curriculum related to weather, climate change and even the Indian monsoon, a teacher’s body has urged the NCERT to reconsider these deletions from the school environment curriculum and bring out different aspects of the climate crisis.

Teachers Against the Climate Crisis (TACC) has claimed that NCERT has removed an entire chapter on Greenhouse Effect from Class 11 Geography syllabus; A complete chapter on Weather, Climate, Weather System and Water from Class 7 syllabus; And information about Indian monsoon from class 9 syllabus.

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TACC, a non-funded, non-party organization that seeks to promote understanding about climate, and has members from universities and research institutes across India, said it is working to address the learning deficit in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Appreciates the efforts of NCERT for Management. Reduce the workload of students by removing material – as stated on its website – however, “any of these concerns fundamental issues such as climate change science, the Indian monsoon and other chapters have been removed.”

Stating that the relevant climate change science is constantly being updated through thousands of peer-reviewed papers published every year as well as very important compilations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) latest assessment report and India’s Published by its report on climate change. “It is of utmost importance that senior school students are everywhere,” said a statement from TACC, an agency under the Ministry of Earth Sciences. India Such updated information is summarized in an accessible, easy-to-understand manner.”

Across the world, including in India, students are increasingly concerned about the drastic changes caused by environmental degradation, an example of which is climate change. “Young people’s actions and interventions are critical to meeting this most fundamental challenge. Systematic knowledge of the reality of climate change, its causes, and its wide reach requires a systematic knowledge of this action to be predicted. Students understand the complexity of the climate crisis. There is a need to understand if they are to respond to it and engage with it intelligently,” TACC said.

However, Class 10 students will no longer be able to learn and be inspired by popular mass movements like Chipko Andolan or Narmada Bachao Andolan in their ‘Popular Struggle and Andolan’ lessons as the chapter on them has been dropped from their ‘democratic’ chapter. Is. It said, the syllabus of politics, and urged the NCERT to reconsider its decision to remove these subjects from the environment syllabus.

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