As many as 73 academicians, including vice chancellors of central universities, NIT directors and IIM chairpersons, on Thursday termed the withdrawal of names over the NCERT textbook row a “spectacle” by some “arrogant and self-interested” people. They also alleged that it was disrupting the much needed curriculum updation process. A couple of days earlier, a number of academicians and political scientists Yogendra Yadav and SuhasPalshikar, who were part of the NCERT’s textbook development committee, had asked the council to drop their names from textbooks over “several substantive revisions of the original texts”. The joint statement issued on Thursday night alleged that in the past three months there have been deliberate attempts to malign the NCERT and it reflects the “intellectual arrogance of academicians who want students to study 17-year-old textbooks”.The signatories to the statement include Vice Chancellors of JNU, Tezpur University, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, The English and Foreign Languages University, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi University, Bangalore University, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, NIT Jalandhar Director, Chairman, Board of Governors, IIM Kashipur, ICSSR secretary and NIOS chairman, among others.
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