The Nationwide Council of Instructional Analysis and Coaching (NCERT) has launched the Class 6 Social Science textbook named ‘Exploring Society: India and Past,’ which talked about the Harappan Society because the ‘Sindhu-Sarasvati Civilisation.’

“Archaeologists gave this civilisation a number of names – ‘Indus,’ ‘Harappan,’ ‘Indus-Sarasvati,’ or ‘Sindhu-Sarasvati’ civilisation. We’ll use all these phrases. Its inhabitants are known as ‘Harappans.’ It is likely one of the oldest civilisations on the earth,” as per Unit 6 of the textbook, The Beginnings of Indian Civilisation.

The unit additionally talked about the Sarasvati River in a sub-header. The river at the moment goes by the identify ‘Ghaggar’ in India, and in Pakistan, it is named ‘Hakra,’ the e-book describes. It’s written within the e-book in regards to the mentioning of the Sarasvati River within the ‘Rig Veda.’

The NCERT, an autonomous physique underneath the Ministry of Training answerable for growing academic supplies, has revised the curriculum of the varsity textbooks according to the Nationwide Training Coverage (NEP) 2020.

Earlier in June, NCERT Director Dinesh Prasad Saklani asserted that the revision of the books is a world and annual train and the adjustments are advocated by topic and pedagogy specialists. The adjustments had been being made as many topics had turn out to be irrelevant and there was a necessity for a brand new replace within the books. He additionally emphasised that there is no such thing as a interference or imposition from the highest officers on this course of.

Mr. Saklani additional mentioned, “Some adjustments have occurred as a result of the themes had been irrelevant, some to replace new data, whereas a number of matters had been eliminated earlier to attenuate the burden on college students attributable to the Covid-19 pandemic and cut back duplication of content material.”