Gujarat Riots-Emergency chapter removed from NCERT books: Syllabus was reduced from 12th books, saying – there was overlap

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has removed the chapter on Gujarat Riots and Emergency from the 12th syllabus. NCERT said that these changes have been made under the corona virus epidemic and National Education Policy 2020. The emphasis is on reducing the syllabus.

NCERT says that this chapter is included in the syllabus of other subjects, due to which this chapter was overlapping. The change comes two months after a suggestion made by an advisory body to the central and state governments on policies to improve school education. Under which chapters of Democracy, Mughal Court, Cold War era, Industrial Revolution and poems of Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz have been removed from the books.

what was in the chapter of gujarat riots
The Gujarat riots chapter read, ‘The Gujarat riots show that the government machinery also becomes sensitive to communal sentiments. This creates a crisis for Democratic politics. The chapter also contained a statement by the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, in which he advised the then Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, to follow Rajdharma.

At the same time, in the chapter of Emergency, it was told how Indira Gandhi’s government misused power. He got the leaders arrested for his own benefit, banned the media. Many people died in custody. Forced sterilization was done, many people died due to poverty and displacement. Chapters related to social movements like Narmada Andolan, Chipko Andolan, Dalit Panthers in Maharashtra have also been removed from the books.