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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. <br>
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Look forward to your responses.<br>
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thanks and regards<br>
Guru<br>
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