Jayaprakash Narayan, Ram Manohar Lohia off varsity syllabus, Bihar Govt orders probe

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 2

The JDU-led NDA government in Bihar on Thursday ordered a comprehensive probe into potential syllabi changes across universities of the state after evidence that political thought of Jayaprakash Narayan and Ram Manohar Lohia had been dropped from MA Political Science paper of the Chhapra university and that of leaders, including Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyay, added.

Nitish takes note

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• Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has taken a serious note of the matter
• The state government has ordered a probe into potential syllabi changes across universities

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has taken a serious note of the matter. Bihar Education Minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary said the Higher Education Department had confirmed that the syllabus on the socialist leaders had been dropped.

“This is improper. Preliminary probe shows the changes were recommended by a panel set up by the office of the Chancellor, who sent across these recommendations to all varsities and possibly many more universities may have effected by the changes in the syllabi although we can’t understand the connection between syllabus change and Credit Based Choice System under the NEP which was sought to be implemented,” Chaudhary said.

The Bihar Government said although universities were autonomous and came under the Chancellor, they were accountable to the state government for any major policy change in education content as it was the state that bore the financial responsibilities.