New Delhi [India] Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Monday criticized the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), saying it is "no longer a professional institution" but a political tool for the ruling party.
The Congress communication general secretary's comments came in the wake of the National Testing Agency blaming NCERT for the "grace marks" glitch in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) 2024 examinations. ) for admission to medical colleges.
Jairam Ramesh said the blame game was merely an attempt to divert attention from the NTA's own "gross failures".
“However, it is true that NCERT is no longer a professional institution.It has been functioning as an affiliate of RSS since 2014. It has just been revealed that its revised Class XI Political Science textbook promotes the idea of secularism as well as criticizes it. Considers the policies of political parties in this regard,” he said in a post on X.
The Congress Rajya Sabha MP said, "The purpose of NCERT is to prepare textbooks, not political pamphlets and propaganda. NCERT is attacking the Constitution of our country, the Preamble of which clearly enshrines secularism as a fundamental pillar of the Indian Republic." Is visible.Various Supreme Court decisions have come out clearly. Secularism was considered an essential part of the basic structure of the Constitution."
Furthermore, he mocked the NCERT, saying that it "needs to remind itself that this is the National Council of Educational Research and Training, not the Nagpur or Narendra Council of Educational Research and Training."
"All its textbooks are now of dubious quality, quite different from the textbooks that shaped me in school," he said.
Also on Sunday, the Congress leader had addressed concerns about the fairness and transparency of NEET.She said that during her tenure in the Parliament Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare (2014–2019), there was widespread support for NEET, although some MPs, particularly from Tamil Nadu, were concerned that it would disenfranchise students from non-CBSE schools. will suffer loss.
Ramesh called for a proper analysis of whether NEET is discriminatory and whether students from poor backgrounds are being denied opportunities. He also highlighted concerns about the integrity of the NTA and the way NEET was designed and administered. He expressed hope that the new parliamentary standing committees will give priority to a comprehensive review of NEET, NTA and NCERT.
Meanwhile, students across the country have protested over the issues surrounding the 2024 NEET-UG exam, including the alleged paper leak and allotment of 'grace marks'.NTA announced that the scorecards of 1,563 candidates who received 'grace marks' will be cancelled, and these candidates will get a chance to retake the exam on June 23, with the results expected by June 30.
Several petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court seeking withdrawal of NEET-UG 2024 results and conducting the exam afresh due to alleged paper leak and malpractices during the May 5 exam.
The Congress communication general secretary's comments came in the wake of the National Testing Agency blaming NCERT for the "grace marks" glitch in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) 2024 examinations. ) for admission to medical colleges.
Jairam Ramesh said the blame game was merely an attempt to divert attention from the NTA's own "gross failures".
“However, it is true that NCERT is no longer a professional institution.It has been functioning as an affiliate of RSS since 2014. It has just been revealed that its revised Class XI Political Science textbook promotes the idea of secularism as well as criticizes it. Considers the policies of political parties in this regard,” he said in a post on X.
The Congress Rajya Sabha MP said, "The purpose of NCERT is to prepare textbooks, not political pamphlets and propaganda. NCERT is attacking the Constitution of our country, the Preamble of which clearly enshrines secularism as a fundamental pillar of the Indian Republic." Is visible.Various Supreme Court decisions have come out clearly. Secularism was considered an essential part of the basic structure of the Constitution."
Furthermore, he mocked the NCERT, saying that it "needs to remind itself that this is the National Council of Educational Research and Training, not the Nagpur or Narendra Council of Educational Research and Training."
"All its textbooks are now of dubious quality, quite different from the textbooks that shaped me in school," he said.
Also on Sunday, the Congress leader had addressed concerns about the fairness and transparency of NEET.She said that during her tenure in the Parliament Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare (2014–2019), there was widespread support for NEET, although some MPs, particularly from Tamil Nadu, were concerned that it would disenfranchise students from non-CBSE schools. will suffer loss.
Ramesh called for a proper analysis of whether NEET is discriminatory and whether students from poor backgrounds are being denied opportunities. He also highlighted concerns about the integrity of the NTA and the way NEET was designed and administered. He expressed hope that the new parliamentary standing committees will give priority to a comprehensive review of NEET, NTA and NCERT.
Meanwhile, students across the country have protested over the issues surrounding the 2024 NEET-UG exam, including the alleged paper leak and allotment of 'grace marks'.NTA announced that the scorecards of 1,563 candidates who received 'grace marks' will be cancelled, and these candidates will get a chance to retake the exam on June 23, with the results expected by June 30.
Several petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court seeking withdrawal of NEET-UG 2024 results and conducting the exam afresh due to alleged paper leak and malpractices during the May 5 exam.
