08-25-2006, 07:33 AM
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Shruti Setia Chhabra
[ 25 Aug, 2006 0326hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
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CHANDIGARH: Kneeling under pressure from its sizeable Jat population, angry at what it sees as the NCERTâs derogatory remarks against the community, the Haryana government in a surprising move has decided to wipe out the offending parts.
Jats had recently revolted after they got to know that in the NCERTâs social science texts meant for Class VIII and XII students the Jats were called "looters" and "marauders".
Reacting swiftly to what looked like a spiralling protest, education minister Phool Chand Mullana on Thursday said that the objectionable parts will be deleted from the books under fire, namely 'Social Science (Part-I) Adhunik Bharat ' â for Class VIII â and Modern India, for Class XII.
This, it was let out, has been done on the directions of CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who had appealed to the Union human resource development ministry to sort the issue out.
Mullana said a letter asking deletion of the objectionable portions has already been sent to the Haryana School Education Board and subsequently to all schools in the state.
Asked if the state government can unilaterally take "corrective" action against NCERT and its books, the minister said, "We have adopted NCERTâs curriculum and can always delete anything which we want to. We have taken a decision not to teach this controversial text in Haryana schools. We get a CD from NCERT which we use to print books. Weâll delete the offending parts and print the books afresh."
When pointed out that the remedy the state government had envisaged would take time and that the books were already in schools, the minister had a startling solution. "We will apply whitener across the problematic portions or tape out the text," he said.
Hooda had some time back written to HRD boss Arjun Singh and asked him to "thoroughly screen all publications of NCERT and expunge all derogatory remarks aimed at any community, creed or region of the country."
Shruti Setia Chhabra
[ 25 Aug, 2006 0326hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
RSS Feeds| SMS NEWS to 8888 for latest updates
CHANDIGARH: Kneeling under pressure from its sizeable Jat population, angry at what it sees as the NCERTâs derogatory remarks against the community, the Haryana government in a surprising move has decided to wipe out the offending parts.
Jats had recently revolted after they got to know that in the NCERTâs social science texts meant for Class VIII and XII students the Jats were called "looters" and "marauders".
Reacting swiftly to what looked like a spiralling protest, education minister Phool Chand Mullana on Thursday said that the objectionable parts will be deleted from the books under fire, namely 'Social Science (Part-I) Adhunik Bharat ' â for Class VIII â and Modern India, for Class XII.
This, it was let out, has been done on the directions of CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who had appealed to the Union human resource development ministry to sort the issue out.
Mullana said a letter asking deletion of the objectionable portions has already been sent to the Haryana School Education Board and subsequently to all schools in the state.
Asked if the state government can unilaterally take "corrective" action against NCERT and its books, the minister said, "We have adopted NCERTâs curriculum and can always delete anything which we want to. We have taken a decision not to teach this controversial text in Haryana schools. We get a CD from NCERT which we use to print books. Weâll delete the offending parts and print the books afresh."
When pointed out that the remedy the state government had envisaged would take time and that the books were already in schools, the minister had a startling solution. "We will apply whitener across the problematic portions or tape out the text," he said.
Hooda had some time back written to HRD boss Arjun Singh and asked him to "thoroughly screen all publications of NCERT and expunge all derogatory remarks aimed at any community, creed or region of the country."