Government will not repeat the old mistakes of writing history
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has come out with a marathon effort and a new education policy after the tenure of three ministers. It only took about six years to arrive. School Education Secretary Anita Karwal of the Ministry of Education is doing a lot of homework regarding the new education policy. Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank is also constantly reviewing the preparations. Sources reveal that the Parliamentary Committee of Parliament has also called a meeting on 13 January to discuss the preparation of the new education policy and other issues including textbooks. Its chairman is Rajya Sabha MP Vinay Sahasrabuddhe. With the new education policy, the discussion of rewriting history is gaining momentum. Sahasrabuddhe, chairman of the parliamentary committee, says that some people are demanding this, but he does not want to say anything about it.
Overall, the government is taking special care to implement the new education policy, taking lessons from earlier mistakes. From an outline of the new syllabus to the writing of a new book, the ministry also wants to proceed with caution.
Last time, five-six pages were removed in the history book
On the question of correct history writing and teaching in the book, the former head of NCERT associated with book writing said that who will write, the correct history. The source says that Dr. Murali Manohar Joshi was the Minister of Human Resource Development. The new course was then outlined and book writing began. It is said that Seema Yadav, a writer of history, took off five-six pages of the IAS book. There was a lot of uproar. There was a lot of uproar in Parliament as well and the then Director of NCERT JS Rajput had to be cleared at all levels.
However, former NCERT director JS Rajput says that correct history should be taught in any country. History tells us our glorious past. Nation love is a matter related to the nation’s self-respect. JS Rajput says that it is unfortunate that we have been reading corrupt history for more than 35-40 years. JS Rajput also believes that there can be controversy once again regarding the writing of history.
What do Education Minister Nishank want
Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank is moving forward under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sources reveal that the Prime Minister wants employment-oriented, research at the national level, a model of education capable of developing versatility that promotes research. Keeping this in the center, it is being finalized with discussion on various aspects of education policy.
Sources reveal that School Education Secretary Anita Karwal has had experience working in the Ministry of Education in Gujarat as well. He has done a lot of work on the country’s model of schooling and the Ministry is working to finalize it. This sequence includes writing of textbooks, looking at the new course outline and future challenges.
Wrong history has been taught for the last 25-30 years?
There is a famous historian associated with the Sangh and the BJP. He himself feels very angry on such questions. The source says that he does not want to get into controversy, but says that the writing of books is a matter of reading and reading states. States have their own board of education and states also have SCERT. The BJP has a government in Gujarat since 1990. For the last 20 years, there is a BJP government in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh. BJP governments came and went in Rajasthan, Jharkhand. The BJP government was formed several times in Uttar Pradesh. There has been a BJP government in Maharashtra, Karnataka, my question is, what work was done in these states to write the correct history or to teach the right history to the students?
With book writing this is the right time for correct history writing
Rajya Sabha MP Rakesh Sinha says that the question of seeking new historiography is eternal. Do not speak anything on it. But if there is any problem with the new education policy then it can be discussed. But a leader associated with the Sangh’s subsidiary organization says that he has made his point before Education Minister Nishank. True history should be taught to the students of our country. He is confident that the Central Government will take the right steps in this direction. A close leader associated with Dinanath Batra, who is associated with the ideology of the Sangh and has been active in the field of education, says that if the right history will not be written now, when will it come now?