{"id":29600,"date":"2017-01-10T20:45:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T20:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=29600"},"modified":"2017-01-10T20:45:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T20:45:26","slug":"eminent-citizens-slam-govt-over-textbook-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=29600","title":{"rendered":"Eminent citizens slam govt over textbook errors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"textbooks_0\"Dhaka desk: Eighty-five eminent citizens of the country have strongly condemned the anomalies in this year's school textbooks and demanded withdrawal of the “error-ridden textbooks” immediately.<\/p>\n

In a joint statement issued yesterday, they urged the authorities concerned to stop imparting lessons through these textbooks to save the young learners from becoming “communal and superstitious”.<\/p>\n

The citizens also demanded an investigation into the matter and punishment to the people responsible.<\/p>\n

The demands came hard on the heels of a public outcry over some embarrassing blunders in school textbooks. Faced with a volley of criticism, the government made two officers of National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) officer on special duty (OSD) and suspended its artist-cum-designer. Two separate committees were formed to find out the errors and the people responsible for the mistakes.<\/p>\n

The prominent citizens in the statement said the government's success in distributing textbooks to all students at free of cost on the very first day of the year is indeed commendable.<\/p>\n

But questions over the standard of the textbooks have been raised for the last several years. People are shocked at the printing mistakes and distortion of spelling, information and history of the textbooks distributed this year, they said.<\/p>\n

Initially, attempts were made to label the incidents as negligence of duty, but the inside stories have started to come out gradually, they added.<\/p>\n

“The deliberate changes in the textbooks were the result of regressive and sycophantic fundamentalism.<\/p>\n

“There is a dangerous spread of communal politics behind this, which has been evident for the last several. This year's textbook is the manifestation of compromise of the government with the communal politics,” the statement said.<\/p>\n

In this year's textbooks, it said, three types of errors and distortion could be found: distortion of spelling and information, mistakes in formation of sentence, and infiltration of fundamental and communal attitudes into the textbooks.<\/p>\n

The signatories to the statement include Ahmed Rafiq, Kamal Lohani, Jatin Sarkar, Prof Serajul Islam Choudhury, Prof Hasan Azizul Haque, Dr Ajoy Roy, Prof Dwijen Sharma, Abul Momen, Ramendu Majumdar, Nasir Uddin Yousuff, Poet Asad Chowdhury, and Mamunur Rashid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dhaka desk: Eighty-five eminent citizens of the country have strongly condemned the anomalies in this year’s school textbooks and demanded withdrawal of the “error-ridden textbooks” immediately. In a joint statement issued yesterday, they urged the authorities concerned to stop imparting lessons through these textbooks to save the young learners from becoming “communal and superstitious”. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":29601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n