Two weeks after the Supreme Court ordered a blanket ban on an NCERT social science textbook, the education body has published an unconditional apology ...

NCERT withdraws Class 8 social science book ‘Exploring Society: India and Beyond’ after controversy over a chapter on corruption in the judiciary; issues unconditional apology.

The social science textbook for Class 8 stated that corruption, a massive backlog of cases and the lack of an adequate number of judges are among the challenges faced by the judicial system ...

NCERT has withdrawn the Class 8 social science textbook Exploring Society: India and Beyond (Part II) and issued a public apology after controversy over the chapter “The Role of Judiciary in our ...

The National Council of Educational Research and Training on Tuesday issued a public apology for a section in a now-withdrawn textbook that spoke about “corruption in the judiciary”. The section was a ...

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has recently opted to retract a Class 8 social science textbook named "Exploring Society: India and Beyond" and has issued a public ...

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the NCERT said, “The National Council of Educational Research and Training [NCERT] has recently published a social science textbook, “Exploring Society: India and ...

In a press release dated March 10, 2026, the NCERT Director and members tendered an unconditional and unqualified apology, admitting that inappropriate textual material and errors of judgment had ...

In the recent development, the National Council of Educational Research and Training, NCERT, has withdrawn a Class 8 Social Science textbook after the Supreme Court banned the book. Why has NCERT ...

The NCERT has issued an unconditional public apology to the court regarding the Class 8 Social Science Testbook. The apology has been issued after the Supreme Court heard the suo moto case and ...

NCERT reiterated that the objective of the new textbooks is to strengthen constitutional literacy, institutional respect, and ...

NCERT's Apology and Textbook Withdrawal The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has issued a public apology and has withdrawn its Class 8 Social Science textbook following a ...