Can't hide behind our names: Advisors reply to NCERT's 'out of question' statement

The fresh row over NCERT Political Science books continued on Saturday after the NCERT replied to Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar following their statement that they were embarrassed to be associated with the 'mutilated' textbook. As NCERT, in its reply, said there was no individual author of its books and therefore there was no question of any individual withdrawal of association, Yogendra Yadav and Palshikar issued another statement saying the NCERT can't hide behind their names. What NCERT said on Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar's objection NCERT said the chief advisor, advisor, member and member-coordinator of the textbook development committees advised how to design and develop the textbooks or contributed to the development of their contents and 'not beyond this'. 'But we do not approve the present version' In a joint statement, Yadav and Palshikar said NCERT may have legal authority to modify its textbooks, but then the advisors too have "moral and legal right to dissociate" their names from a textbook that they do not endorse.