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By India Today News Desk: Swaraj India leader Yogendra Yadav on Saturday again asked the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to remove his name from political science textbooks for Classes 9 to 12, citing his disapproval of the recent deletions made in the books. Yadav and Suhas Palshikar, who were chief advisors to the original political science textbooks for Classes 9 to 12, in a letter to NCERT Director Dinesh Saklani, had NCERT'S RESPONSE The NCERT on Saturday responded to Yadav and Palshikar's requests in an unsigned letter. It said that the textbooks were 'developed' based on the state of their knowledge and understanding on a given subject. "Therefore, at no stage individual authorship is claimed, hence the withdrawal of association by any one is out of question," it said in the two-page statement. Yogendra Yadav responded to NCERT's statement, saying that the organisation didn't address the sole point he and Palshikar had made. Reiterating his request for their names to be dropped, he said if NCERT can use their legal right to "distort" and "mutilate" the text, they must be able to exercise their moral and legal right to dissociate their name from a textbook that they do not endorse. "If the name of the Textbook Development Committee is there to acknowledge our contribution, as the NCERT claims, then we must be free to decline this generosity," he said. Sad to see that NCERT has chosen to respond to Prof Even more disappointing that it do...

After two academicians wrote to the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) seeking the removal of their names as chief advisers of Political Science textbooks for Class 9 to 12, the academic body sent out a circular saying “individual authorship” cannot be claimed for its textbooks. Amid the row over deletion of portions from school textbooks, academicians Suhas Palshikar and Yogendra Yadav, who is also a Swaraj India party leader, wrote to NCERT Director Dinesh Saklani stating, “If NCERT did consult other experts for deciding on these cuts and deletions, we explicitly state that we fully disagree with them in this regard.” In the letter sent on June 8, they claimed that the “rationalised texts” had been “mutilated beyond recognition” and that they were “embarrassed” to be associated with these textbooks. Paragraphs about Hindu radicals’ attempts to kill Mahatma Gandhi and the ban placed on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) after his death were among those removed by the NCERT. It also removed material on Gujarat riots of 2002 and the Mughal reign in India, among other things. Mr. Palshikar and Mr. Yadav wrote, “As academics who were naturally involved in the creation of these textbooks, we are ashamed that our names should be mentioned as primary advisors to these mangled and academically dysfunctional textbooks. We want to make it clear that we completely oppose the process of changing the text in the guise of rationalisation.” Their letter ad...

The National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), however, said the withdrawal of anyone's association is out of the question as textbooks at the school level are developed on the basis of knowledge and understanding of a given subject, and at no stage, individual authorship is claimed. Writing a letter to NCERT, both Yadav and Palshikar said that the books have now been “mutilated” beyond recognition due to the rationalization of the syllabus, rendering the books “academically dysfunctional”, urging for the removal of their names. Yadav and Palshikar wrote in the letter, “We have not raised issues of authorship, copyrights, and NCERT's legal authority to modify these textbooks. Our point is very simple -- If they can use their legal right to distort and mutilate the text, we must be able to exercise our moral and legal right to dissociate our name from a textbook that we do not endorse.” "How can we be forced to introduce a textbook that we no longer recognise? Surely, if the NCERT can get experts to make changes as desired, it can publish their names. The NCERT cannot hide behind our names as Chief Advisors. Please remove our names from the textbooks that were once the source of pride for us but are now a source of embarrassment," the letter said. This comes after NCERT announced cuts in several parts of the Class 10 and Class 12 books, omitting parts of the Mughal empire, democracy, the periodic table, and evolution from the syllabus. (With PTI inputs)...

By PTI NEW DELHI: Embarrassed by the "arbitrary" and "irrational" cuts in NCERT textbooks, Suhas Palshikar and Yogendra Yadav, who were chief advisors for the original Political Science books for classes 9 to 12, have written to NCERT saying the rationalisation exercise has "mutilated" the books and rendered them "academically dysfunctional". The duo has also asked the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to drop their names as chief advisors from all Political Science textbooks. "While the modifications have been justified in the name of rationalisation, we fail to see any pedagogic rationale at work here. We find that the text has been mutilated beyond recognition. There are innumerable and irrational cuts and large deletions without any attempts to fill the gaps created." "We were never consulted or even informed of these changes. If NCERT did consult other experts for deciding on these cuts and deletions, we explicitly state that we fully disagree with them in this regard," according to the letter sent to NCERT Director Dinesh Saklani. Palshikar, an academician and political scientist, and Yadav, political scientist and Swaraj India leader, were chief advisors for the Political Science books for classes 9 to 12 originally published in 2006-07 based on the 2005 version of the National Curriculum Framework (NCF). Their names are mentioned in a "letter to students" and the list of textbook development team at the beginning of each book. "We belie...

Joe Biden, 80, Suffers Humiliating Blunder After Root Canal as he Declares 'Build Back Biden' Swaraj India chief Yogendra Yadav on Sunday spoke in detail about his spat with the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) over the demand for his name to be dropped from NCERT's political science textbooks. © Provided by India Today Why won't NCERT leave us: Yogendra Yadav explains why he wants his name dropped from textbooks Chief advisers for NCERT's political science textbooks for Classes 9 to 12, Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar, asked for their names to be dropped from the new versions of the books over disagreements about the recent deletions in the textbooks. Load Error During a Facebook live session, he spoke about the same and asked why NCERT wasn't leaving them. He spoke about how he became associated with NCERT, how the books - Democratic Politics I for class 9 and Democratic Politics 2 for Class 10, Political Theory for Class 11, Contemporary World Politics for Class 12, were written, and the deletions in textbooks over the last two years. ALSO READ | Yadav said that the then NCERT Director Krishna Kumar had tasked him and Suhas Palshikar with designing six political science textbooks in two years. It wasn't just the efforts of Yadav and Palshikar that went into forming those textbooks, but a team of academic experts, teachers and professors as well. While writing the political science textbooks, Yogendra Yadav said that they wanted to present...

A day after Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar asked the Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar issued a fresh statement on the NCERT row. Also read: Delhi University panel to take call on adding Savarkar in syllabus The two, however, reiterated their demand on Saturday, saying that their names in textbooks “that were once the source of pride for us, are now a source of embarrassment”. Yadav and Palshikar, who were chief advisers for the political science books for classes 9 to 12 published in 2006-07 on the basis of the 2005 version of the National Curriculum Framework, on Thursday wrote to NCERT director Dinesh Prasad Saklani that the rationalization process carried out by the council has “mutilated” textbooks “beyond recognition” and rendered them “academically dysfunctional”. “While the modifications have been justified on grounds of rationalization, we fail to see any pedagogical rationale at work here. We find that the text has been mutilated beyond recognition. There are innumerable and irrational cuts, and large deletions often without any attempt to fill the gaps thus created. We were never consulted or even informed of these changes,” they said. “If NCERT did consult other experts for deciding on these cuts and deletions, we explicitly state that we fully disagree with them in this regard.” Their letter to NCERT came amid a controversy over the removal of several topics from the high school syllabus in 2022, including passages on the theory of evolution, references t...

New Delhi: Objecting to the recent “process of re-shaping text in the name of rationalisation” in the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) books, Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar, who were chief advisors of class 9 to 12 political science textbooks, have requested that their names be removed from them. In a letter addressed to the NCERT director Dinesh Saklani, Yadav and Palshikar have asked the Council to drop their names as “chief advisors” from all six books originally published in 2006-07. Both were part of The Textbook Development Committee constituted in 2005 to develop the syllabus according to the National Curriculum Framework (NCF). “Both of us would like to to dissociate ourselves from these textbooks and request the NCERT to drop our names as chief advisors’ from all Political Science Textbooks of classes IX, X, XI and XII mentioned in the Letter to the Students’ and also in the list of Textbook Development Team at the beginning of each textbook,” they said in the letter posted on Twitter Friday. They also said that they feel “embarrassed” that their names are mentioned as the chief advisors. ThePrint reached NCERT director over texts but there was no response. In view of the regularity with which NCERT is 'rationalizing', among other books, political science textbooks, our names should not be used as Chief Advisors, I and Yogendra Yadav — suhas palshikar (@PalshikarSuhas) This year, the NCERT, as part of “rationalisation”, rem...

New Delhi: Swaraj India chief Yogendra Yadav has repeated his demand for his name to be dropped from the NCERT's Political Science textbooks and accused the country's top educational research body of trying to ignore his request. Mr Yadav and another academician, Suhas Palshikar, are mentioned as chief advisers by the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), and both want to remove their association from what they called "mutilated" textbooks. "Sad to see that NCERT has chosen to respond to professor Suhas Palshikar and my letter through an unsigned statement. Even more disappointing that it does not respond to the sole point we had made," Mr Yadav tweeted today, referring to the NCERT's refusal to remove their names. The NCERT, in the unsigned reply to Mr Yadav's earlier letter asking for his name to be dropped, said textbooks at the school level are developed "based on the state of our knowledge and understanding on a given subject. Therefore, at no stage individual ownership is claimed, hence the withdrawal of association by anyone is out of the question." The NCERT in its reply also defended its authority to make changes to textbooks from time to time based on feedback, identification of factual inaccuracies and other factors. Mr Yadav, however, said the NCERT's response doesn't answer one simple question - why can't his and Mr Palshikar's name be removed? He said he did not raise any query on content ownership or copyrights, alluding to the NCER...