New Delhi: Senior advocate and Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Wednesday said that in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s India, modern Indian history should start from 2014. Educational Research and Training (NCERT) Textbooks of Social Science. Taking to Twitter, Sibal said, “NCERT textbooks erased: 1) Gandhi’s quest for Hindu Muslim unity 2) RSS banned 3) All references to Gujarat riots 4) Protests that turned into social movements in contemporary India. ”
NCERT Textbooks:
Deleted:
1) Gandhi’s quest for Hindu Muslim unity
2) Ban on RSS
3) All references to Gujarat riots
4) Protests that turned into social movements in contemporary IndiaAccording to Modiji’s India, the history of modern India should start from 2014…! – Kapil Sibal (@KapilSibal) April 5, 2023
“Should modern Indian history start from 2014, according to Modi ji’s India?” said the former Union minister. The BJP government came to power in 2014.
Earlier, it was reported that government schools in Uttar Pradesh will adopt the new Class 12 history textbooks of NCERT from this academic session, in which parts of Mughal courts have been removed.
Last year, as part of its “syllabus rationalisation” exercise, the NCERT had removed certain passages from its Class 12 textbooks, including lessons on Mughal courts, from the syllabus, saying they were “overlapping” and “irrelevant”. .
This change will be applicable for all schools following NCERT across the country. Similarly, NCERT will also remove some poems and paragraphs from Hindi textbooks.
According to NCERT, all the changes made will be implemented from the current academic session i.e. 2023-2024. Along with the history and Hindi textbooks, the class 12 civics book has also been revised.
NCERT director refuses to drop chapter on Mughals
National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) director Dinesh Prasad Saklani on Tuesday clarified that chapters on Mughals have not been ‘dropped’ from CBSE textbooks, and said it is a “lie”.
NCERT director told ANI, “This is a lie. (Chapter on) Mughals has not been dropped. Last year there was a rationalization process as there was pressure on students everywhere due to Covid.”
The NCERT chief further said that the expert committees examined the books of standard 6-12. “He recommended that if this chapter is removed, it will not affect the knowledge of the children and an unnecessary burden can be removed… Debate is unnecessary. Those who do not know can check the textbooks. ..” Saklani said.