Odisha school textbook errors: CM Mohan Majhi suspends 4 officials

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Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Friday suspended four officials of the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), including its former Director, following the submission of report that investigated errors in school textbooks.

The action was taken, after a committee headed by the Development Commissioner submitted its report to the CM on the mistakes found in school textbooks.

Following which, Chief Minister ordered the suspension of former Director of Teachers’ Training and SCERT, Manoj Padhi, along with three Assistant Directors, Pralipta Mishra, Dilip Kumar Sahu and Bharati Tudu.

In addition, disciplinary proceedings have been initiated against six Assistant Directors: Bandita Pattnaik, Manas Ranjan Rout, Manoranjan Mahapatra, Dr Prashant Kumar Sahu, Manas Kumar Nayak and Dr Sudarshan Santara.

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The government has also decided to implement all 14 recommendations made by the committee to prevent similar lapses in the future and improve the quality of school education.

The government has also made it mandatory that no school textbook will be sent to the printing press without obtaining all necessary approvals related to language, illustrations, factual accuracy and printing quality.

They also made sure in future, that no textbook should go for printing without final academic, language, fact-image, and production clearance.

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