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Academics slam announcement of study modules on Centre's achievements

Peter Ronald deSouza writes: NCERT’s revisions ignore the goals with which textbooks were written. It needs to be called out

A group of esteemed academicians affiliated with the NCERT books has expressed their frustration and demanded the removal of their names from the textbooks, citing the jeopardizing of their collective creative effort. This comes shortly after political scientists Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar

The 33 academicians who have also asked NCERT to drop their names from political science textbooks include Kanti Prasad Bajpai, the former JNU professor who currently serves as the vice dean at National University Singapore; Pratap Bhanu Mehta, the former vice-chancellor of Ashoka University; Rajeev Bhargava among others.

Days after political scientists Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar wrote to the NCERT, asking their names to be dropped from textbooks, 33 academicians, who were part of the Textbook Development Committee (TDC), have written to the council, saying their collective creative effort is in jeopardy.