Socioscientific issues are science related issues and are of interest to society. Viewing its importance, its inclusion in curriculum and textbooks has become a trend internationally. In India also, it is recommended to include socioscientific issues in textbooks by National Curriculum Framework (NCF). National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has strived to develop the textbooks on the basis of recommendations given by NCF so that the gap between school science and real life could be bridged. The aim of this paper is to examine how NCERT met the challenge of inclusion of socioscientific issues in science textbooks. This paper has therefore, explored the inclusion and discussion of socio-scientific issues in science textbooks developed by (NCERT) of upper primary stage. For this purpose they classified the socio-scientific issues into two: issues related to health and issues related to environment as they are emphasized by NCF. In this study researchers found that several health issues (balance diet, cloning, reproductive health etc.) and environmental issues (pollution, water harvesting, deforestation etc.) have been included but they are discussed superficially.