Kerala school books to have additional reader on RSS ban, Gujarat riots after NCERT omits them from syllabus

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government is likely to continue with the curriculum in its textbooks as the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) removed several history lessons from the class 12 textbook. 

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The State Council of Education Research and Training (SCERT Kerala), according to reports, will add the topics in its curriculum that the NCERT left off. The decision was made on Tuesday during the state curriculum meeting. However, a final decision is yet to be taken by the Education Minister. 

The Curriculum Committee criticized the NCERT for leaving out information from the textbook about freedom fighters, the Gujarat riots, and the RSS ban. In order to address these sections, the Curriculum Committee has decided to publish an additional textbook by SCERT. 

As part of its "syllabus rationalisation" exercise last year, the NCERT, citing "overlapping" and "irrelevant" as reasons, dropped certain portions from the course, including lessons on Gujarat riots, Mughal courts, Emergency, Cold War, Naxalite movement, among others from its textbooks.  The rationalisation note had no mention of excerpts about Mahatma Gandhi.

Earlier, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that the decision to exclude chapters and sections from NCERT's Class 12 political science textbooks is not only a denial of history but also objectionable. He said that historical facts cannot be rejected by eliminating from textbooks what is inconvenient to them.

He said that NCERT is taking positions in favour of RSS' flawed history writing methodology. There needs to be a strong protest against such measures which undermine the secular education envisaged by the Constitution.'

"Gandhiji's death had a magical effect on communal situation in the country", "Gandhi's pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity provoked Hindu extremists" and "Organisations like RSS were banned for some time" are among the texts missing from the class 12 political science textbook for the new academic session. 

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