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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE Editor

Volume X XIV No.3

BOARD OF ADVISORS F
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan or most people including educators, the National Curriculum
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, Framework (NCF) for K-12 education — last presented to the
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta, Balkishan nation in 2005 — is what the apocryphal elephant was to the
Sharma (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal);
Prof. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. seven blind men of Hindoostan. As our indefatigable Managing
Parth Shah, Jeroninio Almeida, Premchand Palety Editor, Summiya Yasmeen discovered in parleys with over three dozen educa-
(Delhi); Dr. Kannan Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra
Subba (Kurseong); Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. tors — principals, teachers, education consultants — before short-listing 19 for
Achyuta Samanta (Bhubaneswar); Shyama Thakore interview, most have a hazy idea of what NCF is all about and its purpose. This
(London)
prevailing confusion is confounded because the new NCF, which is expected
EDITOR to be finalised by year end, will be presented in four detailed and separate
Dilip Thakore documents.
MANAGING EDITOR The first document (360 pages) for Foundational Stage was presented
Summiya Yasmeen to the nation on October 20 last year and was acclaimed by ECCE (early
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR childhood care and education) professionals and preschool promoters. The
Sundar Anand second document, the National Curriculum Framework for School Education
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi (NCFSE), which will lay down a framework/guidelines for primary-secondary
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi) schools countrywide, is scheduled to be released shortly.
9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) NCFSE 2023 is expected to provide guidelines to managements and teach-
9500506102 ers of all 1.40 million schools countrywide, which have a staggering number of
CHIEF EXECUTIVE 260 million children on their muster rolls, to attain the ambitious goals set by
Bhavin Shah +91 9867382867 the National Education Policy 2020. NEP 2020 based on a detailed 484-page
MARKETING report of the Kasturirangan Committee, mandates radical overhaul of India’s
Vice President — Sales: Tejas Pattni 9022487997 moribund education system, KG-Ph D. After the imminent NCFSE is pre-
West: Aasana Jain 9820319127 sented, two more comprehensive documents on teacher education and adult
South: Poonam Shah 9731966373
North: Hannan Ahmed 9810302768 literacy will be presented later this year by a NCF Steering Committee chaired
E-mail: marketing@educationworld.in by Dr. K. Kasturirangan. This will complete the process of conceptualisation
GRAPHICS and finalisation of the unprecedented NCF 2023. Looks like an overdue sea
Suresh K. change is imminent in Indian education. But the devil is in implementation.
SUBSCRIPTIONS As usual at this time of year, our second lead story examines the Union
Kiran Kumar: 9108225694/ Budget 2023-24 from the perspective of India’s long-suffering children. De-
080 43711141 spite being aware that children countrywide suffered severe learning loss dur-
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