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Faced with intense criticism from the Opposition and Congress members, the government on Friday agreed to probe allegations that some NCERT school textbooks contained distorted facts and objectionable language.
The assurance was given by minister of state for parliamentary affairs Suresh Pachouri in the Rajya Sabha after the House witnessed turmoil during the zero hour when opposition members displayed some of the books, which they said contained the distortions. BJP’s
Ravishankar Prasad, who waved several books, alleged the NCERT history book described freedom fighters like Aurobindo Ghosh, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal as “terrorists” and the Jat community as “marauders".
He also read out excerpts from a class 11 Hindi literature book, which had all BJP members on their feet and trooping into the well. Even members on the treasury benches appeared shocked by the objectionable language. A bewildered deputy chairman K Rehman Khan was unable to figure out what exactly the opposition members wanted even as Prasad
kept reading out some more objectionable excerpts and the title of a poem. The deputy chairman then urged the government to respond to the charges but the latter initially did not react.
Prasad said the books also contained suggestions to girl students to use cosmetics. Distortion of history was a very serious issue and such lessons could pollute the minds of children, Prasad said demanding an inquiry into the matter besides punishment for the
guilty.
They were joined by members from the Samajwadi Party and the Left parties. Some Congress members too expressed concern. Congress’s Satyavrat Chaturvedi said it was not an issue to be politicised and government should take the matter seriously and correct the distortions.
BJP alleges NCERT text describes freedom fighters like Ghosh, Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal as “terrorists” and the Jat community as “marauders”
Source : Times of India
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Related CBSE Information
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the CBSE not to frame questions relating to some objectionable passages in the NCERTs history test-books in the forthcoming board examinations to be conducted by it.
The direction came from a Division Bench headed by Justice M K Sharma following an assurance from NCERT that it would remove 20 objectionable passages, which included some references to Sikh religious leader Guru Govind Singh, Aryabhatt and Mughal Emperor Akbar, from its textbooks in the next academic year of 2007.
NCERT also informed the court that it had already issued circulars to the schools about it.
Earlier, the
Bhopal : Accusing NCERT of presenting distorted historical facts about India in CBSE syllabus, senior BJP leader and former HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi today claimed that archaeological evidences have proven that Aryans were original residents of the sub-continent.
Research and archaeological evidences prove that Aryans have not come from outside. They were original residents of India, he said at a felicitation function here.
Alleging that some destructive and mischievous elements were attempting to attack our basic culture and unity, he said the Arya culture was being termed as foreign and epics like the Ramayana and the Mahabharata as fiction.
The NCERT has decided to replace a reference to Sikh Guru Gobind Singh in its Class XII history book, Modern India.
The portion indicated that the Guru was reconciled by receiving a high position by Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah.
The BJP had earlier protested the objectionable references in the textbook authored by Bipin Chandra. The passage that has been removed refers to a Sikh revolt in 1712 and says that Bahadur Shah tried to conciliate the rebellious Sikhs by making peace with Guru Gobind Singh and giving him a high Mansab.
This has been replaced with: In the early eighteenth
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During the confrontation with the public, she