"Why Teach About Riots": NCERT Chief Amid Row Over Babri Whitewash In Books
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The NCERT curriculum is followed by nearly 30,000 schools affiliated to CBSE. This is the fourth round of revision of NCERT textbooks since 2014.
Hatred and violence are not subjects of education and school textbooks should not focus on them, the chief of the country's top education body NCERT has said amid a row over the latest tweaks in its books. The tweaks include removal of references to Babri Masjid demolition and the BJP's Ram Rath Yatra led by its veteran leader Lal Krishna Advani.
The curriculum prepared by NCERT is followed by nearly 30,000 schools affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
In an interview to news agency PTI, NCERT director Dinesh Prasad Saklani rejected accusations of saffronisation of the school curriculum and said the tweaks in textbooks are part of an annual revision.
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