Bengaluru: Congress-led Karnataka government is all set to drop lessons on RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar for the students this academic year.
Guidelines will also be issued to teachers not to teach other lessons included during the tenure of the BJP government. The Congress government would issue a circular soon in this regard, sources said.
Since the textbooks for the 2023-24 academic year have already been published, the government would not order the republication but ask teachers to exclude the lessons. The lessons on the right-winger Chakravarthy Sulibele and scholar Bannaje Govindacharya will also be dropped.
On Tuesday it was decided at the meeting by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and attended by Education Minister Madhu Bangarappa and progressive thinkers, according to sources. It has also been decided to drop controversial and objectionable texts from the teaching, examination, and evaluation process.
Siddaramaiah directed that a committee be formed to look into the controversial content added during the tenure of the BJP and submit a report in a week. The matter is likely to be discussed in the cabinet before the issue of an official circular.
