School textbooks would be revised completely for the academic year of 2024-25 and the process of constituting a committee to spearhead the exercise is ongoing, said Madhu Bangarappa, Minister for the Department of School Education and Literacy (DSEL), on Tuesday.
Referring to changes made in the textbooks this year, the Minister said that they had not revised the textbooks but had only “thrown out certain lessons that were toxic to students”. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, he said to avoid confusion this year, the government only made a few changes to the textbooks and reinstated certain lessons prescribed by the previous Baraguru Ramachandrappa committee.
“The BJP government has tried to saffronise our education system and impose their ideology on schoolchildren, through textbooks. In the name of revision, a lot of objectionable content was included in the school textbooks. But, we neither want to impose any ideology nor want to politicise the issue,” he said.
