When asked about the issue surrounding the textbook, an official of the CBSE team revealed that the cover was taken from an old version of the French textbook.
Digital Desk: On Monday, a Twitter account posted the front page of a CBSE Class 10 French textbook showing Jammu and Kashmir separated from India and sparked off a storm of controversy.
With almost 47,000 followers, the Twitter account "Legal Rights Observatory- LRO" or @LegalLro advertises itself as an NGO that engages in legal action in the public interest.
The tweet read, "Hey @cbseindia29 is this true? Don't U recognize Jammu n Kashmir as integral part of India? Or you still have leftist gang holding tight control over school book section? U r touching new heights- from Gender Confusion in kids to JK Separatism! Amazing."
Amit Shah, the home minister, and Dharmendra Pradhan, the union minister of education, were also mentioned in the tweet.
When asked about the issue surrounding the textbook, an official of the CBSE team revealed that the cover was taken from an old version of the French textbook.
"The cover page of Class 10 French textbook, which accidentally depicts the incorrect map, comes from a previous phased-out edition of the textbook from 2014. The updated version is accessible via the CBSE website, " the official added.
The official also shared the current cover of the same textbook:
Earlier, the NCERT textbooks, which are used in CBSE schools, spent a while in the the headlines in June because of a major syllabus revamp, or'syllabus rationalisation’.
In an effort to simplify the syllabus for the academic year 2022–2023 and reduce the burden on students as a result of the COVID-19 disruption over the previous two years, NCERT deleted a number of themes from the textbooks for Classes 6 through 12.
The Class 12 textbook removed any mentions of the 2022 Gujarat Riots, the Cold War, or Mughal courts. The process of rationalising the syllabus started in December 2021 and was finished in June with the help of a team of subject experts.
It is to be noted that the small and large sections and entire chapters were removed on a variety of topics, spanning from facets of politics to climate and the environment to psychology and socialism.
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