As per the terms of reference of the committee, it will develop four NCFs for school education, early childhood care and education, teacher education and adult education, to propose curriculum reforms taking into account all the recommendations of NEP 2020 relating to these four areas .
The NCF serves as a guideline for the curriculum, textbooks and teaching practices for schools in India. The Committee will discuss the finalized status papers on various aspects of the four areas taking inputs from the State Curriculum Framework received at the Technical Forum for NCF by the National Focus Groups.
The committee will also consider the implications of situations like COVID-19 while developing the NCF.
According to senior MoE officials, the new NCF is likely to be finalized before 2022 and the curriculum is to be started in a phased manner from the new academic session. This will be the fifth National Curriculum Framework, which will come after a gap of 16 years.
TOI reported on June 26, 2021 that new curriculum development will not be an over the top exercise and consultations will be conducted at the district level after the states/UTs come up with their own syllabus before implementing the NCF. The status papers in the areas/subjects identified as per NEP 2020 will form the basis of the State Curriculum Framework (SCF) on the basis of which the NCF is to be developed. All position papers will have two sections. The first section will be common to all focus group papers and the second section will cover the specific features of the position paper.
The committee will finalize the NCF after incorporating the suggestions received from various stakeholders i.e. States/UTs and attending meetings of Executive Committee (EC) and General Body (GB) of NCERT and Central Advisory Board on Education (CABE) .
Former Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) chief Kasturirangan will be accompanied by Vice Chancellor of National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration Mahesh Chandra Pant, Chairman of National Book Trust Govind Prasad Sharma, VC of Central Tribal University TV Kattimani. of Andhra Pradesh, Michelle Danino, visiting professor at IIT Gandhinagar, Milind Kamble, President of IIM, Jammu, Jagbir Singh, Chancellor of Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, Manjul Bhargava, Indian-American mathematician, MK Sridhar, instructor and a social activist and a committee member for the draft, Dhir Jhingaran, founding director of Language and Learning Foundation (LLF) and co-founder and CEO of One Step Foundation and Shankar Maruwada, an entrepreneur. The tenure of the committee is three years.
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