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| High Court asks CBSE not to frame question from objectionable passages | | | New Delhi, Feb 2: Cautioning that objectionable passages about national leaders and communities should not be communicated to school students, the Delhi High Court today directed the CBSE not to frame questions on such passages from NCERT books in this years board examination.
A Division Bench headed by Chief Justice M K Sharma said "Young students should not be taught lessons containing objectionable passages about our leaders and communities. The aim of education is to impart education to young pupils so that they all can live peacefully".
The order came on a petition filed by the NCERT seeking clarification in its earlier order directing NCERT to issue directions to CBSE not to select questions from the objectionable passages.
Earlier, the NCERT has informed the High Court that it would remove 20 objectionable passages, which included some references to Sikh religious leader Guru Govind Singh, Aryabhatt and Mughal Emperor Akbar and branding Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bankim Chandra and Lala Lajpat Rai as militants from its textbooks in 2007-2008.
A committee of experts was constituted following the High Court's direction which had suggested that NCERT should remove the offending portions from the text-books.
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