New Delhi, April 8 -- Indian Institute of Madras (IIT) Madras director V Kamakoti, former vice-chancellor of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) Bengaluru R Venkata Rao and Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) chairman Raghuvendra Tanwar are now part of the 20-member National Syllabus and Teaching Learning Material Committee (NSTC), tasked with preparing the national syllabus and teacher learning material under the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT).

Following the Supreme Court's March 11 order in the matter of a section on "corruption in the judiciary" in the now-withdrawn Class 8 social science textbook, the NCERT reconstituted the NSTC through a notification on April 2.

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