‘No thank you, we decline your generosity’: Yadav, Palshikar clap back at NCERT
12 June | The Indian Express
NCERT Advisors Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar have said they have the right to disassociate themselves from books they do not endorse. (Image credit: Twitter handles of Dr Suhas Palshikar and Yogendra Yadav)
Expressing disappointment with NCERT‘s rejection of their request to remove their names from the rationalised political science textbooks, Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar issued a public statement on Saturday, stating that if NCERT had the legal authority to “distort and mutilate” educational material, then they should also be able to exercise their “moral and legal right” to disassociate themselves from books they do not endorse.
Their statement reads: “The continuation of our names inside the present version of the book creates a false impression of endorsement, and we have every right to dissociate with this insinuation. Besides, the two of us are clearly the “authors” of the signed letter that introduces each book. How can we be forced to introduce a textbook that we no longer recognise?” Yadav and Palshikar had served as chief advisors to NCERT for the political science books for classes 9 to 12 initially published in 2006-07.