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Karnataka Cabinet Okays Textbook Revision; Chapters On RSS Founder, V D Savarkar To Be Dropped
Swarajya News Staff
Jun 15, 2023, 05:07 PM | Updated 05:07 PM IST
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The Karnataka Cabinet has approved the revision of Kannada and Social Science textbooks, for grades six to 10 in the state, for the current academic year.
This decision includes the removal of chapters on RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar and Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar, among others.
This move is in line with the Congress party's pre-election promise to overturn the changes made to school textbooks by the previous BJP government.
In addition to the removal of these chapters, the Cabinet has approved the inclusion of chapters on Savitribai Phule, Nehru's letters to Indira Gandhi, and poetry on B R Ambedkar.
As part of their election manifesto, the Congress promised to undo the changes made to the school textbooks during the previous BJP government's tenure.
The manifesto also committed to scrapping the National Education Policy (NEP).
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