{"id":39512,"date":"2024-02-09T04:13:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T22:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=39512"},"modified":"2025-04-24T16:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T11:06:13","slug":"fisheries-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/fisheries-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Fisheries Sector in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why in news?<\/li>\n<li>What is the National Credit Framework (NCrF)?<\/li>\n<li>What are the Proposed Benefits of NCrF for Various Stakeholders?<\/li>\n<li>What is the Significance of NCrF?\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>News Summary: Proposed CBSE plan for Class 10 and Class 12<\/li>\n<li>Key highlights<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why in news?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has proposed significant changes to the academic framework for secondary and higher secondary education.<\/li>\n<li>The proposed changes form part of the CBSE\u2019s broader initiative to implement a national credit framework in school education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is the National Credit Framework (NCrF)?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Based on the inter-ministerial committee report, the Union Ministry of Education (MoE) unveiled the draft NCrF in 2022.<\/li>\n<li>The NCrF is a set of guidelines to be followed by schools, colleges and universities in adopting the credit system.<\/li>\n<li>It also brings the entire school education system under the ambit of credits for the first time.\n<ul>\n<li>So far, only the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) followed a credit system. The NCrF also covers skill and vocational education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The document lists theoretical, applied sciences or vocational and skill disciplines that can count towards credits earned during school education.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What are the Proposed Benefits of NCrF for Various Stakeholders?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Students:\n<ul>\n<li>Establishing multidisciplinary and holistic education with flexible curricula.<\/li>\n<li>Removing the distinction between arts, science, social sciences, commerce, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Giving student credits for every academic\/skill\/experience.<\/li>\n<li>Enhancing the scope of core learning to include foundational and cognitive both.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Institutions:\n<ul>\n<li>Promoting stronger collaboration between institutions.<\/li>\n<li>Making credit mechanisms simpler and uniform.<\/li>\n<li>Increasing focus on research and innovation.<\/li>\n<li>Leveraging the institutional infrastructure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Government:\n<ul>\n<li>NCrF is expected to assist the government to increase the enrolment of students.<\/li>\n<li>Complementing the demographic dividend and transforming India into the Skill Capital of the World.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Industry:\n<ul>\n<li>NCrF will allow students to attain NSQF-approved foundational skills developed by industry and be more employable.<\/li>\n<li>The provision of micro-credentials will allow integration of quick educational upgradation\/up-skilling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is the Significance of NCrF?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Taking the vision of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, NCrF will &#8211;\n<ul>\n<li>Enable the integration of academic and vocational domains to ensure flexibility and mobility between the two. Thus, mainstreaming skilling and vocational education.<\/li>\n<li>Enable students who have dropped out of mainstream education to re-enter the education ecosystem.<\/li>\n<li>Promote Recognition of Prior Learning for workers who have acquired knowledge and skills informally through traditional family inheritance, work experience, or other means.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>News Summary: Proposed CBSE plan for Class 10 and Class 12<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>CBSE is reported to have proposed significant changes to the academic framework for secondary and higher secondary education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key highlights<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Proposed changes in class 10\n<ul>\n<li>This includes a shift from studying two languages to three in Class 10, with the requirement that at least two must be native Indian languages.<\/li>\n<li>Furthermore, students in Class 10 may now need to pass in 10 subjects, as opposed to the current requirement of five.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Proposed changes in class 12\n<ul>\n<li>For Class 12, the proposed changes involve students studying two languages instead of one, with the condition that at least one must be a native Indian language.<\/li>\n<li>Overall, they would have to clear examinations in six subjects instead of five to graduate from high school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Aim behind the proposed changes\n<ul>\n<li>The proposed changes form part of the CBSE\u2019s broader initiative to implement a national credit framework in school education.<\/li>\n<li>At present, the standard school curriculum does not have a formalised credit system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Academic year and National learning hours\n<ul>\n<li>As per the CBSE plan, <u>an academic year would be made up of 1200 notional learning hours<\/u>, which would translate to earning 40 credits.\n<ul>\n<li>Notional learning refers to a stipulated amount of time that an average student would need to spend in order to attain the specified outcomes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In other words, each subject has been allotted a certain number of hours so that, in a year, a student spends a total of 1200 learning hours to be declared pass.<\/li>\n<li>The hours will include both academic learning at school and non-academic or experiential learning outside the school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Credits earned to be stored in Academic Bank of Credits\n<ul>\n<li>The scheme of studies has accordingly been tweaked to mention teaching hours and credits earned against each subject.<\/li>\n<li>The credits earned by a student will be digitally stored in the Academic Bank of Credits and accessible through a linked Digilocker account.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS)?<\/h3>\n<p>The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) is an autonomous organization that was established in 1989 by the Ministry of Education (MOE). NIOS offers a wide range of subjects, and learners can choose their own subject combinations. NIOS also offers vocational, life enrichment, and community-oriented courses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Q2) What is the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)?<\/h3>\n<p>The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is a national-level education board in India for public and private schools. The Government of India manages and controls the CBSE, which was established in 1929. The CBSE&#8217;s headquarters are located in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/education\/cbse-plan-3-languages-7-other-subjects-in-class-10-6-papers-in-class-12-9137780\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>CBSE plan: 3 languages, 7 other subjects in Class 10; 6 papers in Class 12<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1869278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PIB<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/education\/national-credit-framework-draft-framework-looks-beyond-classroom-to-let-students-earn-credit-for-vocational-studies-too-8219615\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian Express<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fisheries and aquaculture are an important source of food, nutrition, employment &#038; income in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","7":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}