Karnataka to review school text books for offensive references to communities
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Last Updated: Dec 17, 2020, 10:52 PM IST
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“We hope to complete it at the earliest, probably within a month,” Education Minister S Suresh Kumar told ET, after asking the education department to remove references to the Brahmin community in a sixth standard text book.
Karnataka has decided to take up a comprehensive review of school textbooks to see if any chapter contained references offensive to a community or communities after the head of a religious mutt on the Karnataka-Andhra Pradesh border flagged its concerns.
“We hope to complete it at the earliest, probably within a month,” Education Minister S Suresh Kumar told ET, after asking the education department to remove references to the Brahmin community in a sixth standard text book.