After the recent blacking out the names of the of the first prime minister of india Jawaharlal nehru and other freedom fighters from the textbooks, the Rajasthan government has again revised the syllabus. This time the government has axed the RTI act from the books.
According to the reports, the RTI (Right to Information) act was mentioned in the 12th chapter of the Social Science textbook on page 105 of VIII standard but has now been removed by the government.
The MKSS (Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan) said: Removing a chapter on an Act — a movement which is a matter of pride for the entire nation — appears to have been done with malafide intentions. While the RTI movement and Act are being included in curricula across the world, it has been removed from the textbooks of Rajasthan…. The poor and deprived people of Rajasthan played a major part in the RTI struggle.”
It further added, “The government wants to remove certain parts of history altogether so that future generations can have no knowledge of them,” and claimed that there were political reason behind these amendments.
