‘Embarrassed to be associated with these textbooks’: Advisors ask NCERT to drop their names from Pol Science books
Ritika Chopra | 10 June 2023 | Indian Express
Objecting to the recent “innumerable and irrational cuts and large deletions” made by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in school textbooks, Suhas Palshikar and Yogendra Yadav, who were chief advisors for the political science books for classes 9 to 12 originally published in 2006-07, have written to the Council disassociating themselves from the textbooks in their current form and requested that their names be dropped from them.
The NCERT school textbooks are at the centre of yet another controversy with academicians and politicians criticising the sweeping changes and deletions decided last year (and implemented this year) on the pretext of reducing curriculum to help students recover from learning disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. These changes include removing all references to the 2002 Gujarat riots, reducing content related to the Mughal era and the caste system, and dropping chapters on protests and social movements.