Overview

• The School Education and Literacy Department approved chapters across eight textbooks covering Classes 1 through 12.
• SCERT and JEPC have begun drafting material, with a deadline to finalize chapter drafts by August 31, 2025, for inclusion in 2026 textbooks.
• Content will be tailored by grade, using comics and stories in early classes and moving to lessons on campaigns, night schools, multilingual biographies, and a social reform programme in higher classes.
• Education Secretary Umashankar Singh described the effort as value-based learning to build awareness of Jharkhand’s own figures.
• JMM leaders welcomed the decision, and India Today reports the draft will be sent to NCERT for approval for higher classes.