Wide and Inclusive Process for Development of the National Curriculum Framework

The National Steering Committee (NSC) for the NCFs, along with the Ministry of Education, and the NCERT, designed a large-scale, inclusive, and iterative process for the development of the NCF-SE. This process benefited from the diverse and vibrant educational landscape of our country.

Involvement of States and UTs

The process started with the States and Union Territories (UTs) setting up State Focus Groups which together had over 4000 experts, to write Positions Papers on 25 themes relevant to the development of the NCF. More than 600 papers were submitted by 32 States and UTs.

25 National Focus Groups were also formed to develop Position Papers on these 25 themes with an integrated national outlook.

District-level consultations were conducted across the country by the States and UTs with the active participation of DIETs. More than 1550 District Consultation Reports (DCR) were submitted to provide inputs to the NCF.

A survey on MyGov platform was also conducted for seeking relevant inputs from diverse stakeholders — including Teachers, Teacher educators, and other professionals, through 100 questions in various categories — on ECCE, School Education, Teacher Education and Adult Education — 1,50,000 participants shared their views.

Wide consultation with stakeholders

Alongside, consultation meetings were organised with various Ministries of Government of India to understand their vision and how education is important to realising their vision. NGOs and other institutions working on the ground shared their experiences and suggestions. Consultations and Seminars were conducted in universities to get suggestions from scholars on their expectations from school education.

Over 200 educational institutions and experts also gave detailed and careful inputs. Open consultations were organised with various groups of Teachers, parents, and students. The Digital Citizen-centric Survey for National Curriculum (DiSaNC) was launched to get inputs from citizens of India, through 10 questions in various categories; over 13,00,000 citizens, including parents and students, gave their inputs.

Public release of draft

A draft version of the NCF for School Education was released for public comment on 6 April 2023. This was done with the specific objective of seeking feedback from stakeholders to improve the NCF. Over 1,500 specific and detailed suggestions were received from over a 100 institutions and educators. Consultations were conducted with Boards of School Education and with Higher Education Institutions. These have helped arrive at the NCF as is being released.

Thus, this NCF is the output of a deeply inclusive process that involved Teachers, parents, relevant government departments in the States, administrators, schools, NGOs working in education and allied areas, educationists and scholars from various fields, and other citizens of India.

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