Various student organisations on Tuesday held a protest against the recent textbook revision in the State, demanding that the government immediately revert to the old textbooks and that Minister for Primary and Secondary Education B.C. Nagesh be sacked.
The Karnataka Rakshana Vedike also held a protest demonstration at Freedom Park demanding the same.
Kishan Devaiah, State convener, All-India Students’ Association, said that accessing education itself was a serious concern in rural areas, where access to textbooks, uniforms, and bicycles were still an issue, leading to large-scale dropouts, the State government was only interested in imposing its ideology on the masses in the form of textbooks.
