RAS question
Which IIT professor chairs the CBSE expert committee for developing the AI & Computational Thinking curriculum for Classes 3-12?
Correct answer: (B) Professor Karthik Raman from IIT Madras.
Professor Karthik Raman from IIT Madras chairs the CBSE expert committee constituted to develop the AI and Computational Thinking curriculum for Classes 3-12.
Explanation
CBSE constituted an expert committee chaired by Professor Karthik Raman of IIT Madras to develop the AI and Computational Thinking curriculum. The PIB release places this within the Department of School Education and Literacy's wider push to make AI and Computational Thinking part of future-ready school education from Class 3 onwards. It also says the curriculum is being designed under the broad ambit of the National Curriculum Framework for School Education 2023, through consultation involving CBSE, NCERT, KVS, NVS and external experts. Implementation is not limited to syllabus drafting: teacher training and learning-teaching material, including NISHTHA teacher-training modules and video-based resources, are described as the backbone of rollout.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) IIT Delhi is not named in the cited PIB release as chairing the CBSE expert committee for the AI and Computational Thinking curriculum.
- (C) The release identifies Professor Karthik Raman from IIT Madras, not a professor from IIT Bombay, as the committee chair.
- (D) IIT Kanpur is not associated with the chairmanship in the official release; CBSE's committee is chaired by Professor Karthik Raman of IIT Madras.
Concept
This tests governance in school education, especially how statutory and executive bodies such as CBSE implement curriculum reform under national policy frameworks. It recurs in RAS because education policy questions often ask who leads institutional committees and how reforms are operationalised through training and curriculum bodies.