New Delhi: The scrapping of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir last August has now been included in the revised Class 12 political science textbook of the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT).
The revised textbook — ‘Politics of India since Independence' talks about the scrapping of Article 370 in the chapter, ‘Regional Aspirations'. The textbook has been revised for the 2020-21 academic session.
The revised portion, where the chapter talks about Jammu and Kashmir, says J&K had a special status under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution. However, “in spite of it, the region witnessed violence, cross-border terrorism and political instability with internal and external ramifications”.
It also says the Article “resulted in the loss of many lives, including that of innocent civilians, security personnel and militants. Besides, there was also a large scale displacement of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir valley”.
ThePrint reached the spokesperson of the Ministry of Human Resource Development via email for an official comment on this, but there was no response till the publication of this report.
Portion on Kashmir ‘separatists' deleted
A portion from the chapter, called the ‘Separatism and Beyond', which talked about categories of separatists in J&K, has been deleted.
