[ImPostingOnHN]

if each state can just ignore the NCERT curriculum, and if the NCERT curriculum itself is educationally insufficient (not teaching evolution or the periodic table in a school curriculum makes that curriculum a failure), then what is the point of the NCERT curriculum?

[occamschainsaw]

It is the common central/federal baseline. It is accepted as a high school credential everywhere in India (other boards are accepted in general too, but NCERT has to be accepted).

This insufficiency with weird omission for evolution and periodic table seems to be due to covid after effects or general incompetence rather than malice.

I studied in 3 different boards at different points of schooling and the rule of thumb was state board, NCERT/CBSE and ICSE in increasing order of “rigor”. The last two years of high school are spent in preparing for competitive entrance exams anyways, whose syllabus usually is a superset of the school syllabus in your chosen field (engineering, medicine, sciences etc.)

[SJetKaran]

So, India has different systems of curriculum, at national level CBSE/NCERT and ICSE, and many states have their own. Each school individually is affiliated to one of the curriculums.

[ImPostingOnHN]

right, and we are discussing the curriculum at the national level, which is educationally insufficient

why have an educationally insufficient NCERT curriculum?