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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.