New Delhi: The NCERT monitoring committee will meet on Saturday to decide whether to axe caricatures from text books. The Thorat Committee, set up by the Human Resource Development Ministry, had recommended the scrapping of 46 caricatures, of which 24 pertained to the Nehru-Gandhi family.
Sources say that the cartoon on Dr Ambedkar that started the whole controversy in the first place is sure to go. So is the one on anti-Hindi protests that kicked up a storm in Tamil Nadu.
However, apart from these two, the committee is disinclined to axe the other 44 recommended by the Thorat Committee.
If that happens, it could put the NCERT on a collision course with the HRD Ministry....
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New Delhi: Senate members of the seven IITs will on Friday meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in connection with the JEE proposed by the HRD Ministry for admission in IITs and other centrally-funded engineering institutes. The IITs have maintained that the 'one-nation, one-test' proposal compromises with their autonomy and will affect standards maintained at the institutions. Their representatives had met senior PMO officials on Thursday with regards to the matter....
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