The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has formed a 35-member panel tasked with creating the syllabus and teaching-learning material for social sciences (SST), encompassing subjects such as history, geography, political science, sociology and psychology. This Curriculum Area Group (CAG) is responsible for developing the curriculum for Classes 6-12 in alignment with the new National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for school education. Following the NCF’s notification, NCERT had previously formed the National Curriculum Framework Oversight Committee (NOC) and the National Syllabus and Teaching-Learning Material Committee (NSTC) on July 21.
The Curricular Area Group (CAG): Social Science (including History, Geography, Political Science, Sociology and Psychology), which is chaired by Michel Danino, a visiting professor at IIT-Gandhinagar, has been formed in continuation of another 19-member National Syllabus and Teaching Learning Material Committee (NSTC) that was notified in July to finalize the curriculum, textbooks and learning material for these classes, NCERT said in a notification.