Click to play videoNew Delhi: After Malegaon blasts and recent attacks on Christians, curriculum of the RSS affiliated schools is under the government scanner after some UPA allies like Steel Minister Ram Vilas Paswan insisted that these institutions be regulated; this is prodding HRD minister Arjun Singh to seek a status report on matter.
"The RSS run schools do not have any subjects on patriotism but they preach communalism," steel Minister, Ram Vilas Paswan.
The UPA government when it came to power had appointed a committee to look into the textbooks which are taught in schools outside government control.
This report of the Central Advisory Board of Education or CABE was on education systems in RSS run Shishu Mandirs and also on Madarassa education.
CNN-IBN has now learnt that a proposal based on this report to constitute a National Text Books Council is actively under government consideration.
The council is to be a statutory body which will regulate contents in schools outside government purview, this proposal was earlier lying in cold storage.
"They want to ban RSS, they want to ban Bajrang Dal, they want to scrutinize the books and also they insert all terrorist forces, let them do all these things that they will be doing at their own peril," says BJP leader, Venkaih Naidu.
Last year into the office, HRD minister Arjun Singh's detoxification drive now seems to be getting active support from his ministerial colleagues.
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