The state government has formed five new textbook revision committees, consisting of 37 experts, to revise Kannada and social subjects in school textbooks for the next academic year, and undo the changes made during the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) regime in the state, officials familiar with the matter said.
According to an order issued by the department of school education and literacy, the state government has appointed Dr Manjunath Hegde, a retired professor from the Rani Channamma University (RCU), as the chief coordinator of the five committee. It also includes several subject-wise presidents from various universities across Karnataka.
The revisions will be made to first and second-language Kannada textbooks for classes I to X, third-language Kannada textbooks for classes IX and X, and social science textbooks for classes VI to X.
The government has instructed the new committee to complete the textbook revisions in three months and submit the report, which will be implemented for the 2024-2025 academic year.
According to the order, the revision will be as per the UPA era’s National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2005 even as the central government has brought out NCF 2023.
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