NCERT Keeps Nehru, Mughals Out of Books, Covid-19 Cited As Primary Reason for Exclusions
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 23 July 2024 | The Telegraph
The National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has continued with the changes made to school textbooks in 2022-23, such as deletion of matter on Jawaharlal Nehru and the Mughals. The deletions had attracted allegations of ideological bias and the reasoning that academic activities had returned to normal after the pandemic, which the government had cited for the pruning.
In 2023-24, the council added new content but did not restore the excluded chapters, prompting academics to allege that the contents were dropped on political grounds. In the Lok Sabha, Congress member Shafi Parambil asked the government if the NCERT had changed the textbooks for secondary classes and the rationale behind the tweaks. Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan cited Covid-19 as the primary reason for the exclusions…