Meeting held to debate revision of NCERT historical past textbooks

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education met on Wednesday to debate the revision of present National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) historical past textbooks in faculties. During the talk over the necessity for change within the syllabus, former NCERT director JS Rajput and representatives of the Bhartiya Shikshan Mandal (BSM) instructed the committee that present historical past textbooks in faculties have loads of content material that glorify Mughal rulers who invaded India. It sparsely mentions the position of Indian rulers together with the Cholas and Pandyas, which has resulted within the distortion of historical Indian historical past.
On Wednesday, the panel heard the arguments offered by the ex-NCERT director JS Rajput and Professor on the NCERT Shankar Sharan, in addition to representatives of the Bharatiya Shikshan Mandal and the Shiksha Sanskriti Nyas. The two organisations are affiliated to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
Director of NCERT, CBSE Chairman and Secretary of School Education have been additionally current on the assembly. 
Need to make sure proportionate references to all durations of Indian historical past
The panel had met to primarily talk about the necessity to take away references to un-historical details and distortions about our nationwide heroes, to make sure proportionate references to all durations of Indian historical past and to spotlight the position of nice ladies in Indian historical past.
“It has been over two decades since textbook reforms have been discussed at the platform of a Parliamentary Committee. We thought it fit to apply our mind considering the new National Education Policy is in place and new syllabus is being written,” Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education chairman and senior BJP chief Vinay Sahasrabuddhe instructed media.
According to studies, each Rajput and Saran had argued that the quantity of area given to the Mughal period versus the reign of Hindu kings wanted to be balanced. They stated that Indian historical past was falsely written as if overseas rule existed just for 200 years of the British raj, nonetheless, the invasions courting again 1,200 years earlier than that has not been taken into consideration. Rajput and Saran furthered that within the present historical past syllabus, the Mughal period had been whitewashed, and their position as invaders had been muted.
The representatives of the Bharatiya Shikshan Mandal and the Shiksha Sanskriti Nyas additionally argued on related strains, opining that there was a necessity for kids to be taught “Indian Culture from Vedic era onwards”. They additionally asserted that there’s additionally the necessity to right the affect of Marxist historians on Indian textbooks.
NCERT is presently within the means of revising textbooks and is more likely to full the method by 2024. The revision of the curriculum framework for varsity training is being carried out after 15 years. The Ministry has directed the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT) that whereas redesigning textbooks, it’s to be ensured that nothing however the core content material is positioned in them.
NCERT says it has no data on supply of declare made in textbook
Only yesterday, one Shivank Verma had filed an RTI utility in search of proof for the declare made within the NCERT textbook ‘Themes of Indian History (Part II)’ for sophistication XII which talked about that grants have been issued by the Mughal emperors for the restore of temples destroyed in battle in the course of the reigns of Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb.
The NCERT had, nonetheless, stated that it has no proof to show that Mughal emperors had rebuilt temples destroyed in wars, even when it claims the identical in its historical past textbook.