Overview

• Higher Education Minister R. Bindu notified Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and UGC Acting Chairperson Vineet Joshi of the decision and asked for a comprehensive redraft.
• An expert panel convened by the state found the mathematics framework omitted core areas such as real analysis, algebra and applied mathematics while retaining outdated topics like analytical geometry and mechanics.
• Reviewers flagged course-level flaws, saying a proposed Mathematics in Music class relies on Class 10 knowledge despite needing advanced tools like Fourier analysis, and that Mathematics for Machine Learning allocates minimal time to actual ML content.
• The committee cited ideological bias, pointing to references to V. D. Savarkar in political science and framing corporate governance through the concept of Ram Rajya.
• Historian Romila Thapar, a special invitee to the review, criticized the draft’s intrusion into curricular decisions and questioned the rigor and clarity of its Indian Knowledge Systems approach.