Citing ‘overlapping’, NCERT removes parts on 2002 Gujarat riots, Emergency, Mughal courts from class 12 books

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The NCERT has eliminated parts concerning the 2002 Gujarat riots, Emergency, Cold War, Naxalite motion and Mughal courts from its class 12 textbooks as a part of its “syllabus rationalisation” train.

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has cited “overlapping” and “irrelevant” as causes for dropping these parts from the syllabus.

Many of those adjustments had been introduced earlier this 12 months when the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) rationalised its syllabi in April.

Besides faculties below CBSE, some state boards additionally use NCERT textbooks.

Listing the adjustments, the NCERT, in a be aware, mentioned, “The content material of the textbooks has been rationalised for numerous causes, together with overlapping with related content material in different topic areas in the identical class, related content material included within the decrease or increased lessons on the identical topic.

It additionally said that issue degree, content material which is definitely accessible to college students with out a lot intervention from academics and could be realized by self-learning or peer-learning and content material which is irrelevant within the current context have been eliminated.

In class 12 political science textbook, pages on the subject ‘Gujarat Riots’ shall be excluded from the chapter titled ‘Recent Developments in Indian Politics’.

The point out of the National Human Rights Commission report on the 2002 violence and the “raj dharma” comment by then Prime Minister Atal Bihar Vajpayee has been dropped from the textbook.

Also, chapters on Mughal courts in a historical past textbook, a poem on the Dalit motion and a chapter on the Cold War, are among the many exclusions from the political science textbook.

In Class 10, the excluded chapters included verses of poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz within the ‘Religion, Communalism and Politics — Communalism, Secular State’ part of the textbook ‘Democratic Politics II’.

Also, chapters titled ‘Democracy and Diversity’, ‘Popular Struggle and actions’ and ‘Challenges to Democracy’ have been dropped.

In the social science textbook of lessons seven and eight, references to Dalit author Omprakash Valmiki had been eliminated.

In the category seven textbook titled ‘Our Pasts-2’, the subject ‘Emperors: main campaigns and occasions’, has been eliminated.