Jan 30, 2025 08:36 AM IST
State college training division has issued ordinance rescinding the choice taken throughout the tenure of former training minister Deepak Kesarkar to incorporate clean pages in Balbharati textbooks
Pune: After cancelling the choice to introduce a uniform costume code, the state college training division has issued an ordinance rescinding the choice taken throughout the tenure of former training minister Deepak Kesarkar to incorporate clean pages in Balbharati textbooks.
State college training division has issued ordinance rescinding the choice taken throughout the tenure of former training minister Deepak Kesarkar to incorporate clean pages in Balbharati textbooks. (HT FILE)
Throughout Kesarkar’s tenure, a choice was taken to incorporate clean pages on the finish of every lesson in Balbharati textbooks for Courses 2 to eight college students to notice down essential phrases, questions and key factors. A web-based survey was additionally performed to evaluate whether or not or not the scholars benefitted from these clean pages. Nevertheless, the division has determined to publish the Balbharati textbooks with out clean pages from the following tutorial 12 months.
The federal government supplies free Balbharati textbooks to college students in all government-aided colleges. Initially, the choice to incorporate clean pages in these textbooks was taken within the tutorial 12 months 2023-24 to deal with points comparable to growing weight of scholars’ schoolbags and insufficient writing supplies accessible to college students from poor rural background. Whereas training specialists, researchers and academics criticised the initiative, the plan was nonetheless carried out on a trial foundation.
Over time, it was noticed that college students weren’t utilizing the clean pages as anticipated and had been carrying each textbooks and notebooks. Whereas the inclusion of clean pages had elevated printing prices, it weren’t successfully utilised by college students.
Krishnakumar Patil, director, Balbharati on Tuesday stated, “The March 8, 2023 decision to include blank pages in textbooks has been nullified and textbooks will be provided without it from the academic year 2025-26.”
Notably, the Maharashtra State Major Academics’ Committee has constantly opposed each the built-in textbook system and the inclusion of clean pages in textbooks. With the rollback of clean pages in textbooks and the sooner revocation of the ‘One State, One Uniform’ coverage, each main initiatives launched by former minister Kesarkar have now been overturned.
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