NCERT drops chapters on Democracy, Periodic Table, political parties from class 10 textbooks

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has dropped the full chapter on Periodic Classification of Elements, a full chapter on Democracy and Diversity, a full chapter on Challenges to Democracy, and a full page on Political Parties from the newly released textbooks of grade 10 students.

The decision has been taken as part of NCERT’s rationalisation exercise to reduce the content load on students in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Contents of the textbooks...