Sudha Murty, Shankar Mahadevan Join NCERT Textbook Development Panel

Eminent personalities from various fields, Sudha Murty, chairperson of Infosys Foundation, and acclaimed singer-composer, Shankar Mahadevan, are among the 19 members elected by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to prescribe and review the National Curriculum Framework (NCF).

This panel, full of specialists and scholars from different areas, aims to develop modern and pertinent textbooks for students, across the nation. The members of the National Syllabus and Teaching Learning Material Committee are Infosys Foundation Chairman Sudha Murty, Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council Chairman Bibek Debroy, Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council member Sanjeev Sanyal, and noted singer-composer Shankar Mahadevan, among others.

Mahesh Chandra Pant has been named the Chairman of the 19-member committee. Pant is the Chancellor of the National Institute of Education and Planning in Administration. The co-chairmanship of the committee has been assigned to Manjul Bhargava of Princeton University. Chamu Krishna Shastry, the Chairman of the Indian Languages Committee, a high-powered body for the promotion of Indian languages, has also been included in the committee.

The National Syllabus and Teaching Learning Material Committee will be an autonomous body whose task will be to prepare the syllabus for the students of classes 3 to 12. Sudha Murty is the wife of Infosys Chairman Narayana Murthy and mother-in-law of UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The committee members also include M.D. Srinivas, Chairman of Centre for Policy Studies, mathematician Sujatha Ramdorai and former badminton player-turned-coach U. Vimal Kumar.

The committee has been formed to develop NCERT textbooks. Recently, the National Curriculum Framework has been finalised by the 21-member steering panel which was headed by former ISRO Chairman K. Kasturirangan.

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