UGC Wants Undergrads to Learn Ancient Bharatiya Maths—Tell Time Through Sun & Moon, Study MuhūRtas
Fareeha Iftikhar | 23 August 2025 | The Print
New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has proposed a draft mathematics curriculum for undergraduates, featuring ancient Indian concepts like sutra-based arithmetic and algebra, ‘kala ganana’ (time calculation), ‘Bharatiya innovations’, and geometry from the shulva sutras of the Vedic period.
The Council has invited stakeholder feedback on the draft curriculum, which is aligned with the Learning Outcomes-based Curriculum Framework (LOCF) under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020….