New Delhi, June 27 -- Amid a row over the omission of a standalone chapter on the Preamble and explicit references to "secular" and "socialist" in the new Class 9 Social Science textbook, sources in NCERT said reports suggesting these have been dropped are "misleading", arguing the concepts have been redistributed across grades under the revised curriculum.

Some reports highlighted that while the new Class 9 Social Science textbook introduces a section on the Emergency, it no longer contains a separate chapter on the Preamble and does not explicitly explain terms such as "secular" and "socialist", which were part of the previous edition.

(Picture from 7th Social Science)

Sources in NCERT told ANI that reports claiming that the Preamble...