Syllabus dilution
NCERT dropped full chapters of Periodic Classification of Element, Democracy, political parties and Challenges to Democracy from class 10th textbook to reduce the content load on students in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that the pandemic is over will these chapters be returned? Or are they preparing future generations to accept a one party state like China?

My take is that they really wanted to remove the democracy related chapters. And just to make it not look obvious, the periodic table chapters were taken out.
They even removed two whole chapters named, peace and development from political for class 11. If this is their way of subtlety, we are doomed