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| Centre to take action against culprit in 'CBSC faux pas' | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Apr 22: In response to the story published in various newspapers including "Early Times", Senior Congress leader Rashid Alvi said that action would be taken against those responsible in Map Controversy in which a new CBSE textbook for class 3rd in an Army school across the nation including J&K, depicting the map of Jammu and Kashmir exactly how Pakistan claims it to be.
According to the reports the map figuring in 'map book' meant for 3rd class in Sainik School the map describes the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir region, as 'Azad Jammu and Kashmir', a term used by Pakistan to describe the aforesaid region. Secondly, the Gilgit-Baltistan region, a part of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, is called the Northern areas. Reacting to the sensitive issue, the BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has said that the HRD Ministry must get to the bottom of the matter.
"The HRD Ministry must look into the matter immediately. They must find out if this was a mistake or done deliberately," Naqvi said in an interview with CNN-IBN.
He also said that this is a serious matter because Jammu and Kashmir is a controversial topic. "If wrong information about the country's boundaries is being taught to young children, then it must be stopped at once because it is goes against the good of the country," Naqvi said.
Meantime, Congress leader Rashid Alvi while talking to CNN-IBN too has hummed the similar tunes and has said that action would be taken against those responsible.
"We do not have information on the issue. If such a thing has been done, action will be taken," Alvi said.
After surfacing of news in media houses, some Army commanders have now asked some of the school principals to get back to them with the books so that they can take a look. In the meantime, the Army has decided to write to the CBSE and the HRD Ministry regarding the issue. The Army has been maintaining that its position vis-a-vis the issue is very clear since the Army is not a publishing authority.
The said book was published by a leading publishing house based in Karol Bagh in Delhi, which means that, probably, the HRD Ministry is going to sit up and take notice. |
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