The committee will examine the suggestions of the Thorat panel, which was set up to review the textbooks following the Ambedkar cartoon row, and the dissent note of one of the panel members M S S Pandian.
Sources said barring one or two cartoons which invited controversy, NCERT is against removal of others as it found little rationale in removing them as has been suggested by the Thorat panel.
They said the philosophy of the national curriculum framework will be kept in mind by the monitoring committee which would also examine the views of the experts and the feedbacks from various quarters.
The six-member Thorat panel has suggested removal of about 21 of 173 cartoons from class IX-XII textbooks contending they were "ambiguous" and portrayed politicians in an "incorrect way". It has also recommended some changes in words and phrases with negative implications.
While Pandian has said in his dissenting note that he found nothing inappropriate in the book, sources said feedbacks were taken from the field about the cartoons during the time of preparation of the textbooks.
Former NCERT textbook advisor Yogendra Yadav, who resigned in the wake of the Ambedkar cartoon row along with Suhas Palashikar, gave point-by-point clarification about the cartoons selected for the textbook and the idea of having them during a consultative meeting with NCERT on July 4.