New Delhi: NCERT on Monday held "exhaustive" deliberations with the textbook development committee on political science on the issue of removal of certain cartoons and objectionable content from CBSE textbooks, a final decision on which is expected on Tuesday.
The meeting comes amid indications that the controversial cartoons on BR Ambedkar and the one relating to anti-Hindi agitation in Tamil Nadu could be removed.
"There were exhaustive deliberations and a final decision is expected tomorrow after the last round of discussion," a source said, adding, views of the national monitoring committee was also taken into account.
A statement issued after a meeting of the committee on July 14, an apex group of experts which approves textbooks, to discuss the Thorat panel recommendations had said changes if any would be done keeping in mind the public debate on some cartoons.
The apex national monitoring committee had expressed its dissatisfaction over the panel recommendations on deletion of certain number of cartoons on the grounds that there were many inadequacies in the report and the grounds given for removal of the cartoons were not very satisfactory.
The Thorat panel was set up following the row over the Ambedkar cartoon in the CBSE class XI political science textbook.
The panel has sought removal of about 21 cartoons and recommended some changes in words and phrases with negative implications.
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