Over 70,000 booklets to be distributed on revised textbook changes for Karnataka schools: Reports

NEW DELHI: The Karnataka School Education Department will distribute over 70,000 booklets on the revised school textbook changes. As per The Indian Express, the booklets will be distributed among the government schools in the state and to those schools following the state board curriculum for the academic year 2023-24.

The booklets, as per the report, carries clarifications featuring the changes introduced earlier after dropping certain lessons. The present state government, in the cabinet meeting held last week, has decided to make 18 changes to the total 45 recommended by the Karnataka textbook revision committee constituted by the state.

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The Karnataka Primary and Secondary Education Minister Madhu Bangarappa earlier this month said the revision of school textbooks will be done this year itself.

Karnataka Cabinet has approved the revision of Kannada and Social Science textbooks of Class 6 to 10 in the state, for the current academic year by removing the chapters including on RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar and Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar. It has also consented to add chapters on Savitribai Phule, Nehru's letters to Indira Gandhi and poetry on BR Ambedkar, and do away with the changes that were brought in by the previous BJP government.

The Congress in its poll manifesto had promised to undo the changes made to school textbooks when the BJP was in power, and had also promised to scrap National Education Policy (NEP).

“The Chief Minister is personally interested in this, it was also clearly mentioned in our manifesto -- of which I was the vice president -- that we will revise the textbook in the interest of the students. Same thing will stand. As we are implementing the guarantees, in the same way in my department we will fulfill what he had said,” Bangarappa said earlier.