After 35 scholars, including chief advisers for textbook development committee Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar, asked for their names to be removed from the “rationalised” National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) textbooks, another 73 academicians have called their move “a false propaganda against the NCERT” and the exercise of school curriculum rationalisation.
Academicians from Jawaharlal Nehru University, University Grants Commissions and Vice-Chancellors from various State universities issued a joint statement saying that stalling the process of issuing revised textbooks was no less than stalling the students’ futures.
“Their demand is that students continue to study from 17-year-old textbooks rather than updated textbooks. In their quest to further their political agenda, they are ready to endanger the future of crores of children across the country,” they said.
