'Learning Without Burden is a basic concept related to:

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  1. NCF-2005
  2. NPE-1986
  3. NCTE
  4. NCERT

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Option 1 : NCF-2005
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NCF (National curriculum framework) 2005, which acts as a guideline for textbooks, syllabus, and all the teaching procedures, released by NCERT is the 4th national curriculum framework and its predecessors were released in 1975, 1988, and 2000 respectively.

Important Points 

  • The concept of "Learning without burden" was taken up from "Yashpal-committee report, 1993". 
  • This concept is taken to provide advice on how to lessen the burden on school children at all levels, particularly kids, while boosting learning quality, including the opportunity for lifelong self-learning and skill development.
  • NCF 2005 lays emphasis on learning without a burden in order to make learning a pleasurable experience and to move away from textbooks as a basis for testing and to relieve the stress of children.
  • It is also recommended that children should learn in a natural environment without having any kind of performance pressure or fear of failure.

​​Hence, it is clear that the correct answer is NCF-2005.

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NPE-1986

(National policy on education)

  •  It is formulated by the Indian Government as a national system of education to provide quality education to all.
  • The policy emphasizes the removal of educational disparities by promoting the inclusion of women, SC, and STs in the education system.

NCTE

(National Council for teacher education)

  • It is a policy designed to achieve planned and coordinated development of the teacher education system.
  • NCTE mainly designs 'Teacher Education Program' or 'Teacher Training Programme'. 

NCERT

(National Council of educational research and training)

  • It was founded in 1961 as a self-governing body of the Indian government.
  • Its mission is to conduct, promote and coordinate research in fields related to school education and also to prepare and publish textbooks, supplementary material educational kits, etc.
Additional Information
  • NCF (National curriculum framework) 2005, has been translated into 22 languages and has influenced the curriculum of 17 states. The NCERT gave each state a 10,00,000 rupee grant to promote NCF in their own language and compare their current syllabus to the proposed syllabus in order to develop a strategy for future reforms.

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