Thiruvananthapuram: Commending on the current controversy surrounding NCERT`s determination to omit sure parts from the college syllabus, Kerala schooling minister V Sivankutty demanded that NCERT board, must be reconstituted with representatives inclusion from all states. He alleged that NCERT`S determination is on behalf of RSS to saffronise Indian historical past.
“The decision to exclude certain key portions from NCERT textbook can`t be the decision of NCERT alone, it can only be seen as the decision of BJP govt. They have the same ideologies as RSS and BJP government is implementing the visions of RSS. The NCERT should be reconstituted with representatives from all states,” V Sivankutty alleged.
Accusing NCERT of instructing college students a `communal` historical past Sivakutty stated Kerala would uphold constitutional values in instructional insurance policies. “Kerala will uphold constitutional values and will give importance to academic interests. India has its own history which was recorded by many. Now NCERT is teaching the new generation a new history based on communalism,” the minister stated.
Alleging the central authorities of pursuing a vested political curiosity reasonably than the tutorial curiosity he stated Kerala is not going to use NCERT textbooks of eleventh and twelfth requirements. “we will not use NCERT textbooks in 11th and 12th standards. The central government is giving importance to vested interest rather than academic interests”.
The determination to drop sure parts, particularly regarding Mughal historical past precipitated political controversy with a number of opposition events alleging it was a part of a saffronisation agenda of the BJP authorities. But NCERT says that it was finished as a part of the rationalization.
