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The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Tuesday asked Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to take remedial action over a book for nursing students listing the "merits and advantages" of the dowry system.

The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Tuesday wrote to Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and sought his intervention and remedial action against the sociology textbook for nurses which listed the merits of dowry.

Texbook for nurses argued that dowry was good for society

NCW asked Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to take remedial action over the book for nursing students that lists the "merits and advantages" of the dowry system.

An image of a book page, listing the "merits and advantages" of the dowry system, has gone viral on social media, prompting people to wonder the kind of message such reading material is sending to youngsters and the society at large.

A Sociology textbook that is part of the curriculum for a nursing course and is prescribed by the Indian Nursing Council mentions, in one of the chapters, the merits of dowry. As images of the appended chapter were shared on social media, netizens reacted.

The page is from the Textbook of Sociology for Nurses and is authored by TK Indrani. A screenshot of the same was shared on Twitter and has gone viral online.

Book says an attractive dowry can help

In a shocker, a sociology textbook for nurses has claimed that the oft-reviled system of dowry is actually good for society and even helps parents of "ugly looking girls" to get them married off.The "gems" of social wisdom ...

Several Twitter users on Monday appealed to the government to remove from circulation an objectionable book detailing the merits of the dowry system.