After two academicians wrote to the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) seeking the removal of their names as chief advisers of Political Science textbooks for Class 9 to 12, the academic body sent out a circular saying “individual authorship” cannot be claimed for its textbooks.
Amid the row over deletion of portions from school textbooks, academicians Suhas Palshikar and Yogendra Yadav, who is also a Swaraj India party leader, wrote to NCERT Director Dinesh Saklani stating, “If NCERT did consult other experts for deciding on these cuts and deletions, we explicitly state that we fully disagree with them in this regard.”
In the letter sent on June 8, they claimed that the “rationalised texts” had been “mutilated beyond recognition” and that they were “embarrassed” to be associated with these textbooks.
