Bengaluru: The state Government has decided to drop ‘controversial lessons’ from textbooks from this academic year itself. This was decided in a meeting held on June 6. A circular to all the schools have been sent saying to drop such lessons and that review order will be ready in two days.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and School Education and Literacy Department Minister Madhu Bangarappa held a meeting with education experts including litterateur Baraguru Ramachandrappa and VP Niranjanaradhya. It is said that the experts were of the opinion that some of the lessons where against the Constitution of India and will impact children’s mind. Herefire about 15 such lessons is said to be dropped.
It may be recalled here that during the BJP Government, Rohith Chakrathirtha-led Textbook Revision Committee had also included a chapter on RSS Founder K. B. Hedgewar, and Scholar Bannanje Govindacharaya, while lessons written by Devanur Mahadeva were dropped, this raking up controversy.