The NCERT had in 2022 removed up to 40 per cent of content from textbooks on the ground that students had developed learning gaps. Academicians and researchers have criticised the NCERT, saying chapters were selectively removed from social science books to conform to the BJP government’s ideology
NCERT, an autonomous body under the aegis of the Ministry of Education involved in preparation of school curriculum and textbooks, will also do its best in furthering the same, says the minister
The official added that barring Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, and West Bengal, all other states and Union Territories participated in the survey.
History, simply, cannot be changed, Mamata added, going on to compare the Modi government with the reign of Muhammad bin Tughluq, a 14th century Sultan of Delhi, mostly remembered for eccentric policy swings