BENGALURU: The State government, which constituted a committee headed by writer Prof Baraguru Ramachandrappa to revise the state board textbooks, has changed its mind nearly an year after it took this decision. It has now decided to go ahead with using textbooks from the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).
The committee headed by Ramachandrappa finished revision of textbooks for state board schools from Class 1 to 10 and was waiting to submit its report to the government.
However, at the same time, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Tanveer Sait is all set to adopt NCERT textbooks for Classes 9 and 10.
Confirming this to Express, an official source in the Primary and Secondary Education
Department said, “We have given orders for experts to translate NCERT textbooks for Class 9 and 10 for some subjects.”
Giving credence to this development, Sait recently made a statement that the revised textbooks will be implemented from the 2018-19 academic year, while the textbook revision committee had said the books are ready and can be implemented from the 2017-18 academic year itself.
According to sources, the department has asked subject experts to translate some NCERT subject textbooks of Class 9 and 10. “This exercise was done last month,” said an official.
Official sources also stated that Social Science, Mathematics, Science textbooks from NCERT of Classes 9 and 10 are being translated to Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada.Meanwhile, the issue has now reached the Chief Minister with textbook revision committee chairman Baraguru Ramachandrappa witting to Siddaramaiah about the developments, said members of the committee.
Committee was formed to remove saffronisation
The textbook revision committee was appointed when Kimmane Rathnakar was the Primary Education minister mainly following allegations of saffronisation in textbooks and errors introduced when the BJP was in power in the State.