Chapters dropped from NCERT's 10th standard textbooks

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has dropped the full chapter on Periodic Classification of Elements from 10th standard textbooks.

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NCERT also dropped a full chapter on Democracy and Diversity from class 10th social science textbooks.

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A full chapter on Challenges to Democracy has also been removed from the 10th standard by the NCERT.

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The three topics deleted from the class 10th science textbook are Periodic Classification of Elements, Sources of Energy and Sustainable Management of Natural resources.

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In the Social Studies textbook, three chapters from Democratic Politics-1 have been dropped including Popular Struggles and Movements, Political Parties and Challenges to Democracy.

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The NCERT has also remove the Theory of Biological Evolution from the class 10 curriculum.

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Complete chapters on these above subjects now stand deleted as a part of a “rationalisation” meant to reduce the “burden on students”.

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