SHILLONG, Aug 29: The Meghalaya government will soon notify
the textbook review committee to bring changes in certain
textbooks and to ensure the same have more local contents in
them.
“The textbook review committee is going to be notified so we
will be giving some deadline to the committee (for making
necessary) recommendations to the government,” Adviser to
the education department Himalaya M Shangpliang told
reporters on Tuesday.
He said that the textbook review committee is one of the
various committees which are in the pipeline as part of
preparation for implementation of the new education policy at
the school level.
Shangpliang said that the textbook review committee will also
provide a lot suggestions and recommendations to the
government to bring in a new syllabus, a new curriculum with
textbooks containing a lot of local contents
“We are in the mind of exercising to bring in NCERT textbooks
too in the present context through the MBOSE,” he added.
The adviser said, “The textbook committee will go into the
changes that need to be brought in certain books. Maybe we
would like to change or add on certain chapters or certain
topics in certain subjects be it geography, be it science and so
on.
“Therefore, we would like this textbook committee to go into
this depth to see that the textbook of our children should have
local contents. Our children of the state should know the
history of Meghalaya, should know geography of Meghalaya
and many things about Meghalaya as the (present) books are
just brought from outside and they have lots of other contents
but not much about Meghalaya. Therefore, we need to bring
certain changes in certain books at the school level.” (NNN)
