School textbooks are full of errors about Indian states
“India's formal education system is failing and government school system is failing - government is not delivering the goods.” This concern was voiced by India’s Chief Economic Advisor, Raghuram Rajan after witnessing the apathy toward the education system of our country.
Education starts at the primary level, but the dismal performance of our students at this level is a testimony that there is a need for an overhaul of our education system. In its seventh Annual Status of Education Report, NGO Pratham had revealed that “more than half of the students in class V in rural India cannot read the text taught in class II in 2011.” This study clearly proves the pathetic quality of elementary education in India.
There is a great need for the Indian government to work on the educational front. With this in mind the ‘Right to Education Act’ was passed in 2010 to improve our creaking school system. But along with the government, our education bodies too have an important role to play as a change agent and social architect, who give importance to upliftment of the education standard in our country.
The credibility of our education bodies has already been compromised with cases of factual errors in printing and biased presentation in board text books coming to the fore. A case in point is the exclusion of Arunachal Pradesh from India’s map in Maharashtra’s Class X Geography text book and the omission of Lakshadweep and Andaman and Nicobar islands from the political map in the Class 10 history textbook. Of course, China’s claim on Arunachal Pradesh as its own must have got a shot in the arm by this exclusion. These incidents have beyond a doubt weakened our international stand as far as the unity and integrity of the nation is concerned.
Former Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Rita Verma admitted in Rajya Sabha that four NCERT history school textbooks contained factual errors and biases. Several reports highlighted that as many as 50 errors were detected in NCERT textbooks. Such cases of textbook errors are being reported from every state. Gujarat government failed to keep their promise of delivering error-free textbooks for Gujarati-medium students of government primary schools in the state, even as they gear up to begin their new academic session from June 1. Currently, 6-7 crore copies of old text books with wrong contents and errors are available in Gujarat.
“India's formal education system is failing and government school system is failing - government is not delivering the goods.” This concern was voiced by India’s Chief Economic Advisor, Raghuram Rajan after witnessing the apathy toward the education system of our country.
Education starts at the primary level, but the dismal performance of our students at this level is a testimony that there is a need for an overhaul of our education system. In its seventh Annual Status of Education Report, NGO Pratham had revealed that “more than half of the students in class V in rural India cannot read the text taught in class II in 2011.” This study clearly proves the pathetic quality of elementary education in India.
There is a great need for the Indian government to work on the educational front. With this in mind the ‘Right to Education Act’ was passed in 2010 to improve our creaking school system. But along with the government, our education bodies too have an important role to play as a change agent and social architect, who give importance to upliftment of the education standard in our country.
The credibility of our education bodies has already been compromised with cases of factual errors in printing and biased presentation in board text books coming to the fore. A case in point is the exclusion of Arunachal Pradesh from India’s map in Maharashtra’s Class X Geography text book and the omission of Lakshadweep and Andaman and Nicobar islands from the political map in the Class 10 history textbook. Of course, China’s claim on Arunachal Pradesh as its own must have got a shot in the arm by this exclusion. These incidents have beyond a doubt weakened our international stand as far as the unity and integrity of the nation is concerned.
Former Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Rita Verma admitted in Rajya Sabha that four NCERT history school textbooks contained factual errors and biases. Several reports highlighted that as many as 50 errors were detected in NCERT textbooks. Such cases of textbook errors are being reported from every state. Gujarat government failed to keep their promise of delivering error-free textbooks for Gujarati-medium students of government primary schools in the state, even as they gear up to begin their new academic session from June 1. Currently, 6-7 crore copies of old text books with wrong contents and errors are available in Gujarat.
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