Karnataka: BJP youth wing protests against education minister over textbook revisions
1 year, 4 months ago

Karnataka: BJP youth wing protests against education minister over textbook revisions

Hindustan Times  

Bharatiya Janata Party Yuva Morcha workers on Wednesday held a protest against the state education minister Madhu Bangarappa, for removing chapters on Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar and RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, while he was holding a meeting with officials in Shivamogga, people familiar with the matter said. Shivamogga: In response to the protest by the BJP Yuva Morcha workers, Bangarappa asked them to read the textbook before holding demonstrations. The BJP workers, wearing black bands and clothes, stormed into the Zilla Panchayat office where the education minister was holding a meeting, and raised slogans against Bangarappa and the Congress government. In response to the protest by the BJP Yuva Morcha workers, Bangarappa asked them to read the textbook before holding demonstrations.

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Karnataka government forms new committees to revise school textbooks in time for next academic year
1 year, 2 months ago

Karnataka government forms new committees to revise school textbooks in time for next academic year

The Hindu  

The State government has set up five committees, including 37 members, led by M.G. Once the Congress came to power, with little time to completely revise textbooks for this academic year, it re-revised them to make some “corrections, additions, and deletions” under the guidance of Mr. Ramachandrappa again, promising to bring revised textbooks for the next academic year. Separate committees …

Karnataka Congress releases revised textbooks corrigendum
1 year, 5 months ago

Karnataka Congress releases revised textbooks corrigendum

Hindustan Times  

The Karnataka Text Books Society has published 140 pages of revised school textbooks corrigendum of the Social Science and Kannada textbooks for classes 6 to 10 in state schools. According to the corrigendum, the revisions were made to Kannada first and second language for classes 6 to 10 and Social Science textbooks for classes 6, 7 and 10 in Kannada …

Karnataka Cabinet okays removing chapters on RSS founder and Savarkar in school textbooks
1 year, 6 months ago

Karnataka Cabinet okays removing chapters on RSS founder and Savarkar in school textbooks

The Hindu  

Karnataka Cabinet on June 15 approved the revision of Kannada and Social Science textbooks of class six to ten in the State, for the current academic year by removing the chapters on RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar and Hindutva ideologue V.D. The Congress had in its poll manifesto promised to undo the changes made to school textbooks when the BJP …

UP schools to adopt revised NCERT books; No lessons on Mughal courts
1 year, 8 months ago

UP schools to adopt revised NCERT books; No lessons on Mughal courts

Hindustan Times  

Uttar Pradesh government schools will adopt from this academic session the NCERT's new class 12 history textbooks in which portions about Mughal courts have been removed. Portions on Mughal courts and Gujarat riots have been removed from NCERT Class 12 History and Political Science textbooks "We teach our students using NCERT books.whatever is there in the revised edition will be …

Sahitya parishat raises objections to revised textbooks
2 years, 6 months ago

Sahitya parishat raises objections to revised textbooks

The Hindu  

Hopping on the bandwagon of those protesting against the revision of school textbooks by the Rohith Chakrathirtha-led committee, the Bengaluru unit of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat has raised objections to the neglect of icons from Karnataka in the revision process. In a release, unit president N. Prakash Murthy said that lessons on State icons of the Bhakti and Sufi movements, …

Explained: The row over textbook chapters in Karnataka
2 years, 6 months ago

Explained: The row over textbook chapters in Karnataka

India Today  

A controversy surrounding school textbooks is raging in Karnataka with scholars, writers, politicians and seers all up in arms against the government. THE ORIGIN The Karnataka government set up a textbook revision committee in 2020, after it received complaints that some chapters or sections in Kannada textbooks were against the Brahmin community. OLD SOCIAL MEDIA POST, NEW OUTRAGE Amidst all …

‘Congress’ aim is to politicise…': Karnataka education minister on textbook row
2 years, 6 months ago

‘Congress’ aim is to politicise…': Karnataka education minister on textbook row

Hindustan Times  

Karnataka education minister BC Nagesh hit out at the Congress over the ongoing textbook row. The education minister said that the Congress has been teaching “false things” to students. Education minister BC Nagesh The textbook controversy began when a speech by RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar was reported to have been included in school textbooks, while a lesson on freedom …

Congress to protest against Karnataka textbook revision on June 9 in Bengaluru
2 years, 6 months ago

Congress to protest against Karnataka textbook revision on June 9 in Bengaluru

India Today  

Amid the escalating controversy over the revision of textbooks in Karnataka, the opposition party Congress has called a protest in Vidhana Soudha at 10 am on June 9, Thursday. The Karnataka government had been engulfed in a raging controversy after the textbook review committee included a lesson on RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar's speech in school books. Lingayat seers also …

Why school textbook revision in Karnataka kicked up a storm
2 years, 6 months ago

Why school textbook revision in Karnataka kicked up a storm

India Today  

Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai, on June 3, stepped in to defuse the escalating row over revised school textbooks, which saw writers and religious seers voicing concerns about the new content even as activists and students’ organisations held street protests demanding that the BJP government in the state revert to the earlier texts. Review, re-review School textbooks from class 1 …

Karnataka textbook revision row | Lingayats warn of statewide agitation
2 years, 6 months ago

Karnataka textbook revision row | Lingayats warn of statewide agitation

The Hindu  

Condemning the misrepresentation of Basaveshwara in the Class IX Social Science textbook, members of the Jagatika Lingayata Mahasabha staged a demonstration in Kalaburagi on Saturday. It is also a wrong representation of Basaveshwara’s life, because Shaiva gurus believe in Stavara Linga worship and they cannot give Ishta Linga Diksha to Basaveshwara. Ishta Linga was, in fact, a brainchild of Basaveshwara …

Explained | Why the protests over the school syllabus in Karnataka
2 years, 6 months ago

Explained | Why the protests over the school syllabus in Karnataka

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Karnataka textbook revision committee, headed by Rohith Chakrathirtha, has included a speech by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh founder K.B. Nagesh and Commissioner of the Department of Public Instruction demanding revision of some lessons in the Class 6 and Class 8 social science textbooks which they said “hurt the sentiments of the Brahmin community.” On the basis …

Student and Kannada organisations want government to revert to old textbooks
2 years, 6 months ago

Student and Kannada organisations want government to revert to old textbooks

The Hindu  

Various student organisations on Tuesday held a protest against the recent textbook revision in the State, demanding that the government immediately revert to the old textbooks and that Minister for Primary and Secondary Education B.C. Kishan Devaiah, State convener, All-India Students’ Association, said that accessing education itself was a serious concern in rural areas, where access to textbooks, uniforms, and …

Karnataka CM Bommai seeks report after row erupts over revised school textbooks
2 years, 6 months ago

Karnataka CM Bommai seeks report after row erupts over revised school textbooks

India Today  

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has sought a report from Education Minister BC Nagesh after a row erupted over revised school textbooks. A revision committee headed by Rohith Chakrathirtha, to examine social science and language textbooks, recently revised social science textbooks from Classes 6 to 10 and Kannada language textbooks from Classes 1 to 10. READ | Did not remove …

Bengaluru: Activists, lawyers protest against proposed revision of textbooks in Karnataka
2 years, 6 months ago

Bengaluru: Activists, lawyers protest against proposed revision of textbooks in Karnataka

India Today  

Several activists and lawyers on Monday staged a protest outside the Civil Court in Bengaluru against the proposed changes to the Secondary School Leaving Certificate school textbooks in Karnataka. A major controversy erupted after the state government included the speech of a RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar in the Class 10 Kannada revised textbook. Earlier, academicians and writers from across …

Campus Front of India protests against Karnataka govt's decision to include RSS founder's speech in textbooks
2 years, 6 months ago

Campus Front of India protests against Karnataka govt's decision to include RSS founder's speech in textbooks

India Today  

Campus Front of India members on Wednesday, May 26 held a protest in Karnataka's Vijayanagara district against inclusion of RSS founder Hedgewar's speech in school textbooks. "This act of the government, that promotes the speech of anti-national individuals, rather than focusing on promoting harmony and unity in society, is an insult to freedom fighters," CFI said in a statement. Earlier, …

Opposition slams Karnataka government over textbook redraft
2 years, 7 months ago

Opposition slams Karnataka government over textbook redraft

The Hindu  

The Opposition Congress and JD have slammed the BJP government for redrafting textbooks - dropping a lesson on freedom fighter Bhagat Singh authored by G. Ramakrishna and including a speech by RSS founder K.B. “Tomorrow they may want to edge out Mahatma Gandhi from textbooks,” he said. Ugrappa said this was an attempt by the BJP to communally polarise children …

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