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New Delhi. National Book Trust President Govind Prasad Sharma says that the mention of defeat in the current syllabus in schools is very high. He has said that history should be rewritten with respect to new facts and the fighting spirit of the rulers should be talked about in books. Like Maharana Pratap fought against foreign invader
Sharma is a member of a committee set up by the government on September 21 under the leadership of K Kasturirangan to set out broad guidelines for school curriculum and textbooks. It will modify the National Curriculum Framework.
The first meeting of the 12-member committee that drafted the NCF took place on Tuesday. School Education Secretary Anita Karwal also participated in this. The Union Education Ministry informed in a tweet on Tuesday that the provisions of the National Education Policy, 2020 were discussed in the meeting.
On Wednesday, Sharma said, “Today history is taught that we lost here, we lost there. But we need to discuss the conflicts. During the battle we fought bravely against the foreign invaders. We don’t throw enough light on that.’
He said the fact that so many fights took place only because he put up such a strong resistance. For example a story has been made that the Mughal emperor Akbar defeated Maharana Pratap while the fact is that the two never fought face to face. History must be rewritten with respect to new facts. Or we can also say that new facts should be included in the textbooks. The revised curriculum should also help in developing social harmony and national pride.
Sharma is the former president of Vidya Bharati, the education wing of the RSS, which runs a chain of schools across India. He remains its central executive member. Sharma has previously been the chairman of the Textbook Writing Standing Committee of the Government of Madhya Pradesh.
Sharma said that the committee in its first meeting decided to start working on 25 areas covering areas such as technology, environment, development in India’s traditional knowledge system and culture. He said that scientific achievements in ancient India should also be included in the curriculum.
