State Minister Ratan Lal Nath said “An expert panel has recommended that the Tripura government should adopt National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) curriculum for schools in Tripura”.
The panel also suggested to implementing Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) syllabus across all government and government-aided schools.
The recommendation was given by a six-member expert committee and suggested to implement CBSE syllabus in schools in order to ease down the burden of books on the children. The committee was headed by Tripura University
Vice-Chancellor Professor Arunoday Saha.
Arunoday Saha said “we have collected inputs from fifty headmasters and from students of different schools for one month, and after analyzing the data, we have come to the inference that the CBSE syllabus could be implemented from the first to eighth standard from January 2019 as books were already translated in Bengali. For the implementation of the new course from classes 8 to 12, we have to wait for one more year (2020) for two reasons. One is that, the CBSE has decided to revise their syllabus next year (2019), and the books need to be translated into Bengali and local tribal language Kokbarak.”
Ratan Lal Nath said that the final decision whether to implement the suggestions of the committee or not will be in the hands of the government.
The bad performance of the schools in the Madhyamik examinations conducted by Tripura Board of Secondary Examination (TBSE) this year is another reason why the committee has recommended NCERT syllabus in the schools, Saha said. This year, the pass percentage of the students in the Madhyamik exams were only 59.59 percent.