PANEL TO REVIEW TEXTBOOKS
The State education minister Govind Singh Dotasra on Wednesday passed orders to constitute special committees to review school text books from class 1 o 12.
According to a statement issued by the education department, committees of subject experts and educationists will be constituted for all the subjects.
“Orders have been sent out to review the changes made by the previous government,” said Dotasra. “In order to fulfil selfish motives and citing innovations, the previous government made several changes in the textbooks by neglecting history, culture and great personalities and forced its whims and fancies,” said Dotasra.
The BJP government in Rajasthan in May 2016 dropped Jawaharlal Nehru’s name from Class VIII textbooks in the state, both as the first prime minister and as a prominent leader of freedom struggle. The textbook revisions were carried under the BJP government as part of “curriculum re-structuring” and drew flak for diluting content on Nehru.