Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Education Minister V. Sivankutty on Saturday announced that the state government has taken steps to bring back the contents that were deleted from the school curriculum.
“After Onam break (September) when classes resume, new textbooks will be distributed in the schools. It’s necessary that students should learn the history, economics, and science of ours in the right perspective,” the Minister said.
Several important portions from the NCERT textbooks, including the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, the ban on RSS, Mughal history, the industrial revolution, and the history of post-independent India, were deleted by the Centre in the name of rationalisation of the syllabus.
Kerala’s Pinarayi Vijayan government had already spoken against the deletion and promised that students will be taught India in its true spirit.
Chief Minister Vijayan strongly condemned the Centre’s move and alleged that the "complete saffronisation" of academic books was the objective behind this.