BENGALURU: The Karnataka cabinet on Thursday approved the revision of Kannada and social science textbooks for classes 6-10 in the state for the current academic year by removing the chapters on RSS founder KB Hedgewar and Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar, among others.
The cabinet consented to add chapters on social reformer and educator Savitribai Phule, Jawaharlal Nehru’s letters to Indira Gandhi and poetry on BR Ambedkar, while doing away with the changes brought in by the previous BJP government with immediate effect.
It also decided to make daily reading of the Preamble to the Constitution mandatory in all schools and colleges, both government and private. Displaying a portrait of the Preamble in all government and semi-government offices in the state has been made compulsory, too. Madhu Bangarappa, the primary and secondary education minister said, “Since the academic year has already started and textbooks have reached the students, the department will send supplementary books consisting of 15 pages to all schools with a note on what to teach and what not to.”
The cabinet consented to add chapters on social reformer and educator Savitribai Phule, Jawaharlal Nehru’s letters to Indira Gandhi and poetry on BR Ambedkar, while doing away with the changes brought in by the previous BJP government with immediate effect.
It also decided to make daily reading of the Preamble to the Constitution mandatory in all schools and colleges, both government and private. Displaying a portrait of the Preamble in all government and semi-government offices in the state has been made compulsory, too. Madhu Bangarappa, the primary and secondary education minister said, “Since the academic year has already started and textbooks have reached the students, the department will send supplementary books consisting of 15 pages to all schools with a note on what to teach and what not to.”
