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There will be no references or chapters on Andhra Pradesh in the new curriculum for schools in Telangana.
The Telangana government wants all chapters related to Andhra history or culture to be deleted from school textbooks. The government has formed two committees to review the syllabus for social studies and Telugu and add Telangana centric chapters. Officials said this will not affect students in examinations since each state prepares its own question papers.
The existing curriculum also has very little reference to other states in the country and many Telangana writers and poets say that it is loaded with literature from Andhra region, while that from Telangana has been stamped upon and completely eliminated.
It is learnt that education minister G. Jagdish Reddy has already told the committees to remove Andhra related material and said that anything related to history of Andhra or literature by writers and poets from Andhra should not be present in the curriculum.
“Instructions are very clear. Nothing related to Andhra’s culture or history should be there. Everything should be from Telangana’s perspective. Obviously references will be there in some parts but anything exclusively about Andhra region is to be removed,” a senior official said.
Telangana to erase Andhra history in school text books
The Telangana government wants all chapters related to Andhra history or culture to be deleted from school textbooks. The government has formed two committees to review the syllabus for social studies and Telugu and add Telangana centric chapters. Officials said this will not affect students in examinations since each state prepares its own question papers.
The existing curriculum also has very little reference to other states in the country and many Telangana writers and poets say that it is loaded with literature from Andhra region, while that from Telangana has been stamped upon and completely eliminated.
It is learnt that education minister G. Jagdish Reddy has already told the committees to remove Andhra related material and said that anything related to history of Andhra or literature by writers and poets from Andhra should not be present in the curriculum.
“Instructions are very clear. Nothing related to Andhra’s culture or history should be there. Everything should be from Telangana’s perspective. Obviously references will be there in some parts but anything exclusively about Andhra region is to be removed,” a senior official said.
Telangana to erase Andhra history in school text books
