India's new National Curriculum Framework for school education, decoded

The education ministry has announced a new National Curriculum Framework for school education, which promises to usher in greater curricular flexibility and choice for students. There will be a greater focus on Indian languages. Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan in a tweet said that all efforts will be made to bring out NCF 2023 aligned textbooks by the next academic session. There will be a choice of appearing in two board exams, which will be introduced later. ET takes a look: