Row Over NCERT's Syllabus Purge | NCERT’s ‘Course Correction’ Justified? | English News | News18

Row Over NCERT's Syllabus Purge | NCERT’s ‘Course Correction’ Justified? | English News | News18


The NCERT, the central authority in charge of designing the syllabus for academic study in educational institutions has carried out another round of deletions and alterations. This time it has focussed its attention on Class 12 political science textbooks.

The so-called course correction, pun very much intended, will mean that Class 12 students will no longer learn about certain seminal events that shaped the Hindutva movement. For instance, Class 12 textbooks will no longer allude to the BJP’s ‘Rath Yatra’ from Somnath to Ayodhya or even the saffron party’s expression of regret over the “Ayodhya happenings”. Indeed, references to the Babri demolition (the mosque itself is going to be referred to only as the “three-domed structure”) have been edited out. This is also true of the mention of “Muslims massacred in Gujarat riots” and “achievements” of Mughal emperors.

The NCERT’s director has been quoted as having said that the deletions were necessary because he was particularly against teaching about riots in textbooks. The reason is that the NCERT wants “to create positive citizens, not violent and depressed individuals”.

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