Academicians appeal to President to intervene in Supreme Court textbook row

Fifty-one academicians have written to the President of India Droupadi Murmu to urgently intervene and ask the Union Ministry of Education to request the Supreme Court to withdraw the ban on the Class 8 social science textbook, which courted controversy over a subsection on “corruption in judiciary”, and immediately allow its online publication without the chapter on the judiciary.

In a letter dated April 7, several professors, including those from the Indian Institutes of Management, Indian Institutes of Technology, the Indian Statistical Institute, and the Jawaharlal Nehru University, among others, appealed to the President that the Ministry of Education should request the Supreme Court to waive off the harsh punishment imposed on three respected educationists in the matter.