Congress leader and former Education Minister B.K. Chandrashekar and MP L. Hanumanthaiah on Thursday hit out at the State government’s attempts at “saffronisation” of school education and claimed that Primary and Secondary Education Minister B.C Nagesh has been implementing this agenda at the behest of the Central government.
They also questioned the constitution of the textbook revision committee and alleged that it was not representative of all communities. There were no experts in the committee and only sympathisers of the BJP and the RSS have been included in the committee, they alleged. They demanded constitution of a new committee.
Mr. Chandrashekar pointed out that in 2020, the Narendra Modi-led government had reduced 30% of the syllabus. The CBSE had then instructed its schools not to teach chapters on secularism and citizenship, he said.
