Karnataka Minister: School textbook revision this year

Karnataka Primary and Secondary Education Minister Madhu Bangarappa on Thursday said revision of school textbooks will be done this year itself in the interest of the students. He said the matter will be soon placed before the Cabinet to seek its consent.
The Congress in its poll manifesto had promised to undo the changes made to school textbooks when the BJP was in power, and had also promised to scrap National Education Policy (NEP).
“The Chief Minister is personally interested in this; it was also clearly mentioned in our manifesto — of which I was the vice president — that we will revise the textbook in the interest of the students. Same thing will stand. As we are implementing the guarantees, in the same way in my department we will fulfill what he had said,” Bangarappa said.
Speaking to reporters here, he said, “There are reports in the media that we may not revise this year as the textbooks have already reached the students. No, we will do it this year itself by introducing whatever necessary as a supplementary. There is such a system and it has been done several times in the past. We have already begun the work in this regard.”
It is also being ensured that there is no burden on the students because of this, he said adding that as “It is still the initial days of the academic year, and as students wouldn’t have entered the textbook curriculum yet, this is the time we have to do whatever we have to, of course those chapters (to be omitted) will be there in the textbooks, but teachers will be directed what to teach and what not to.”