'Unless we do a line by line comparison between the old books and the new books, we won’t know what has been omitted. We're only talking about the more obvious [deletions] which have been brought to our attention,' says historian professor Mridula Mukherjee.
NCERT and SCERT are the nodal organizations for textbook writing as per the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2005 and the right of a child under Section 29(1) of the RTE Act.
Dropping several topics and portions from the NCERT textbooks has triggered a controversy with the Opposition blaming the Centre for ‘whitewashing with vengeance’