NSUI demands
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 29 2017:
National Students Union of India (NSUI) Manipur has demanded the removal and correction of distorted facts and history about Manipur printed in an NCERT class V textbook published by Macmillan Publishers India Ltd, Mumbai.
Speaking to media persons at the Union's office at Congress Bhavan today, NSUI Manipur State president P Bankimchandra said that the book described Manipur being created when Mahadeva and Durga danced on the hills and strongly warned that such distorted facts would spread false knowledge and information to the students who read these books.
He urged the Education Minister to take up every necessary steps to erase the baseless and false information from the textbook.
Expressing the need for honesty and transperancy in all education sector related woks in order to bring development, Bankimchandra said that NSUI would keep a close eye on the projects and works being taken up by the authority concerned in order to improve the education system in the State.