NCERT scraps evolution, periodic table for high school; experts baffled
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In 2018, then-junior education minister Satyapal Singh asserted that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is "scientifically wrong" since none of "our ancestors...saw an ape turning into a man" and called for its removal from the curriculum. Now, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has permanently deleted it from the high school syllabus along with the periodic table.
