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Nursery textbooks with violent words seized in UP
Tuesday May 01, 2012 08:18:10 PM,
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'B' for bomb, 'ch' for chaku...in UP school
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Upside down pictures of India's national flag, chapters to
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Lucknow: Following an
IANS report, the Uttar Pradesh (UP) government has seized copies
of a book of English alphabets for nursery students that carried
violent words such as bomb and 'chakoo' (knife) and slapped a show
cause notice on the school that had prescribed the book.
UP Joint Education Director Vikas Srivastava led the raid to St.
Marks School in Udayganj and hauled up the authorities for being
"so careless" that a book containing violent words was allowed to
find its way into the syllabus.
IANS last week highlighted that in the book, the alphabet B was
being used for the word Bomb and C for Chakoo.
Also, a moral education book from Moradabad carrying an inverted
national flag has been withdrawn from the market.
The publisher said it had withdrawn 2,700 copies of the book and
destroyed the remaining 2,500.
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