The BJP-led State government has committed a big blunder by appointing a person running tuition classes to head the committee constituted to revise school textbooks, KPCC working president Eshwar Khandre has said.
Addressing presspersons in Hubballi on Thursday, Mr. Khandre said that there was no shortage of educational experts, litterateurs and thinkers in Karnataka, who were capable of taking up the responsibility of revising textbooks. However, the government gave the responsibility to a man running tuition classes. This decision would spoil the future of crores of children, he said.
He said that the committee had not followed any systematic and scientific way of revising textbooks, which was evident from the fact that lessons that sowed the poisonous seeds of caste and religion had been included in the revised textbooks and those that spread the message of brotherhood, equality and harmony had been deleted.
