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<font size="4">Final statement released to press (In English and in
Kannada). Request all to share with your own networks/media
networks and also tweet about it today<br>
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Statement is also on
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regards,<br>
Guru<br>
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On 02/06/22 11:02, Guru wrote:<br>
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Dear all,<br>
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Revised statement post incorporation of comments received. Let us
know if there is any modification you think needed. Thank to those
who provided solicited comments.<br>
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regards,<br>
Guru<br>
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On 31/05/22 14:33, Guru wrote:<br>
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<font size="4">Dear friends,<br>
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As you may be aware, Karnataka government setup a committee to
revise textbooks last year and the committee has dropped
chapters of progressive writers/ on progressive ideas
(Lankesh, Ramakrishnan, Periyar, Narayana Guru) including
chapters on caste in society. This revision process has also
lead to a delay in printing and distribution of textbooks,
though schools opened two weeks ago (from May 16), many
textbooks are still not available in the schools. <br>
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A few of us have drafted a statement from the NCEE on this
issue. We request your review on this statement and feedback
by end of June 2, based on which we can review/revise/finalize
and issue. In our last meeting on 28 May we discussed the need
for NCEE to speak up in cases where we see active
discrimination, on religious/caste/gender grounds, which also
further aggravates the education emergency.<br>
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I have also provided a few newspaper articles on this topic
which provides some data for our statement, for reference. We
will also seek specific endorsements and comments from
educators to share with the statement to get wider publicity.
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Look forward to your responses.<br>
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thanks and regards<br>
Guru<br>
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