<span style="color: #222222;">National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has termed those reports as misleading and factually incorrect wherein it is claimed that Evolution and Periodic Table has been dropped from NCERT books.<br />''<br />''  In a series of tweets on Saturday, NCERT said that the periodic table has not been removed from the school education curriculum but is, in fact, available in great detail in Unit 3 of Class 11th textbook – Classification of Elements and Periodicity in properties.  NCERT further stated that there is a full chapter on Evolution available in chapter 6 – Evolution, of Class 12th textbook which explains the concept of Evolution and Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution in great detail.<br />''<br />''NCERT said a section of media has reported about the dropping of evolution and the periodic table from NCERT books. These claims are misleading and factually incorrect. It said, rationalization of textbooks was a need-based exercise to reduce the content load in view of mental health of students during the pandemic.</span><br />