Key Points
Mughal history continues to be part of the curriculum in various class levels, the NCERT director claimed..
Furthermore, they are following the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, which emphasises reducing content load in education...
The Director of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), Dinesh Prasad Saklani, clarified that chapters on Mughals were not dropped from CBSE books, dismissing it as a lie..
Expert committees were tasked with examining the books from standards 6-12, and they recommended that certain chapters could be dropped without affecting the students knowledge and reducing unnecessary burdens..
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