Kerala's State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) has decided to reintroduce deleted portions mainly pertaining to History from NCERT Books and will print supplementary textbooks for the same
Team Clarion
NEW DELHI – The Kerala State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) is learnt to have decided to reintroduce portions of History that the NCERT has deleted from textbooks of class XI and XII as part of its “syllabus rationalisation” process.
The decision has been taken by the curriculum committee which recommended that the deleted portions, mainly pertaining to History, should be taught in Kerala. For this, the SCERT has decided that supplementary textbooks should be printed in the state.
The 2002 Gujarat Muslim genocide, history of the Mughal empire, contribution of Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad, the ban on Hindutva militant group RSS and portions related to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi are among topics removed from NCERT textbooks.
NCERT has dropped portions of textbooks from Classes 6 to 12. But the changes for classes up to 10 don’t affect Kerala as the state relies on NCERT textbooks only for Classes 11 and 12.
Though the curriculum committee has entrusted the State education minister to take final decision, but sources say, according to reports, that with the government taking a firm stand against removal of selected portions from textbooks, the state education department is expected to go ahead with the committee’s in-principle decision that the deleted portions should be taught.
