Textbook
Three educators blacklisted by India's Supreme Court over a controversial chapter in an NCERT Class 8 textbook have sought a hearing. The chapter covered corruption in the judiciary. Chief Justice Kant agreed to hear them.
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A controversial chapter in the Class 8 NCERT social science textbook mentioning corruption in the judiciary was written by a committee including a lawyer but was not reviewed by any legal experts, officials said on Thursday. The Supreme Court has called for action against those who wrote the chapter, and Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has promised strict measures.