NCERT director refutes claims on removal of chapters on Mughals Empire from class 12th History books

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) recently revised their history curriculum and allegedly dropped a chapter on Mughal Kings from the CBSE textbook on ‘Medieval History’ for class 12 students. Talking to ANI, Dinesh Prasad Saklani director of NCERT said, “We are teaching Mughals in classes and it is untrue to say that we removed chapters on Mughals as some chapters were removed due to COVID last year, in order to reduce the content load on students during the time of COVID.” Dinesh Prasad Saklani asserted, “We will introduce National Education Policy 2020 soon, with a vision to make students good human beings and citizens of the country. Apart from that students will receive a holistic education along with skills required for the 21st century”. As a part of the rationalisation process, a chapter on the Mughals was removed.