Kolkata: Union Minister of State HRD Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey on Tuesday said the Centre does not have any plans to delete Rabindranath Tagore's writing and works of other personalities from NCERT text books.
Mr Pandey echoed Union School Education and Literacy Ministry Secretary Anil Swarup, who had earlier in the day denied having knowledge about any such move.
Responding to queries by reporters at an ASSOCHAM function in Kolkata that the Centre has any plans to act on a five-page list of recommendations by a certain organisation, which included removal of a poem by Punjabi poet Pash, a couplet by Mirza Ghalib, extracts from MF Husain's autobiography and the thoughts of Rabindranath Tagore from the text book, Pandey described it as "wrong information."
Mr Swarup had earlier told reporters on a similar question, "I don't think there is any such proposal."
To a question if he had seen any such recommendation, Mr Swarup said "I don't recall having seen it."
Mr Pandey echoed Union School Education and Literacy Ministry Secretary Anil Swarup, who had earlier in the day denied having knowledge about any such move.
Responding to queries by reporters at an ASSOCHAM function in Kolkata that the Centre has any plans to act on a five-page list of recommendations by a certain organisation, which included removal of a poem by Punjabi poet Pash, a couplet by Mirza Ghalib, extracts from MF Husain's autobiography and the thoughts of Rabindranath Tagore from the text book, Pandey described it as "wrong information."
Mr Swarup had earlier told reporters on a similar question, "I don't think there is any such proposal."
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To a question if he had seen any such recommendation, Mr Swarup said "I don't recall having seen it."
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