Tripura to scrap Left-era syllabus

AGARTALA: The Tripura government has decided to do away with the school syllabus introduced by the previous Left Front regime state education minister Ratan Lal Nath has said.
Nath on Friday told the state legislative assembly about the change in school syllabus from the next academic session. He also said students would be taught from National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) textbooks.
"The government will introduce NCERT textbooks and CBSE syllabus from the next academic session in place of the present curriculum prescribed by the State Council of Educational Research and Training," Nath said. A team of NCERT experts is scheduled to arrive here on December 3 to impart a three-month-long training to the teachers about the new syllabus, he added.
"We shall introduce complete NCERT textbooks and CBSE syllabus from next academic year, because students in our state are lagging behind the standard of the country. We want them to be as competitive as students of other states," Nath informed the assembly.
Shortly after coming to power in March this year ending the 25-year uninterrupted rule of the CPM-led Left Front, the BJP-Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) government set up an expert committee on the change of school syllabus.
The panel has recommended NCERT curriculum along with the implementation of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) syllabus across all government and government-aided schools in the state. pti