NCERT book aims to connect with NE
Source: The Sangai Express / DNA
New Delhi, May 28 2017:
In order to sensitise students
about North East India, its history,
culture and war heroes, the
National Council of Educational
Research and Training
(NCERT), for the first time, has
come up with a comprehensive
book.
The talking point for this
proposal came after a 20-
year-old student from
Arunachal Pradesh, Nido
Tania, was allegedly killed in
a racial attack in 2014.After
more such attacks, there was
a discussion that these attacks
are happening because people
in other parts of the country
are not sentitised about North
East India.
The book, 'North East India
� People, History and
Culture', talks about the eight
States � Arunachal Pradesh,
Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya,
Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura
and Sikkim in detail and for
the first time the freedom
fighters from the region have
been written about in great
detail.
The book talks about important
movements in history
like the 1904 women's struggle
in Manipur against the
British.
North East states
have played an important role
in the struggle for freedom,
which don't find a place in
our history books.
This book
attempts to capture that too.
The NCERT used to include
information on North
East in its Social Science
books but there was no such
book where everything was
explained at one place and in
great detail.
This is the reason
that this book has been released.
"There were incidents of
discrimination with students
from the North East and it
was felt that it is because of
lack of information on the
States and its people.
Hence
it was decided by the Government that we should come up with comprehensive material of the North
Eastern part of India," said Neeraja Rashmi, head, Department of
Education in Social Sciences, NCERT.
"We started working on this book last year and it took us
around one year to come up with it.
A team of eight people
who were associated with the North East region in some or
the other way worked on this book," Prof Rashmi, who
worked on the book, added.
"The other book in the series will be Women of North East
India.
The names of the women have not been decided so far,
but it will be on women who are doing some good work in
the region," she added.
The book is meant as a supplementary reading for students
from Class 9 to 12, but is also suggested for teachers.