Following speculations around the removal of the Preamble from the new Class 9 Social Science textbook, NCERT sources have labelled the ongoing reports
as ‘misleading’. According to them, the Class 9 curriculum has been remodelled under the new National Curriculum Framework; therefore, the topics have been redistributed across different Grades instead of being covered in a single textbook. The NCERT sources have told a news agency that the Preamble is still present in the initial pages of all revised NCERT textbooks, including all Social Science textbooks. “It is also part of the Grade 10 syllabus,” sources told ANI, adding that the constitutional values, including secularism, justice, liberty and socialism, are already introduced in Grades 6 to 8, especially in the Grade 7 Social Science textbook, and will be dealt with in more detail in Grade 10.
