Textbooks today are aimed at creating "activists" and not educating students, the newly appointed chief of ICSSR Braj Bihari Kumar has said, terming universities like the JNU a "nurturing ground" for them. "Textbooks are not meant for making students activists but for educating them. "Textbooks are in bad shape today. I had found a map in a social science textbook which showed Jammu and Kashmir out of India, there was another one not showing northeast area as part of the country. There are several lapses in our textbooks," Kumar told(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

Source: dna July 02, 2017 13:41 UTC