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Bangalore: No saffronization of text books - Education minister

  •   Tue, May 21 2013 09:38:16 AM

Bangalore: No saffronization of text books - Education minister

Daijiworld Media Netowrk – Bangalore (SP)

Bangalore, May 21: Primary and secondary education minister, Kimmane Ratnakar, after assuming charge of his department, stressed that during his tenure as minister, he will take steps to stop saffronization of text books, and address the issue of shortage of text books.

He also said his other priority will be to set right wrongs which had been committed by the department in the past.

Speaking to press persons here on Monday May 20, Ratnakar said that the department of education happens to be one of the most important portfolios, and that he would to try to rejuvenate the department. He added he proposes to govern the department, duly taking the senior officials of the department into confidence.

“Social commitment will be kept in mind while preparing text books henceforth. Towards this end, I propose to seek advice from scholars and thinkers, and take a proper decision after holding detailed discussions with the chief minister,” he explained.
  

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  • albert, Mangalore

    Wed, May 22 2013

    poor chap.. he has to satisfy Italian amma for providing one minister's post!!

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  • Desi Jawan, Mangalore

    Wed, May 22 2013

    Dear miniSTER!
    I think you have to get more educated before you take on the task specially in the education ministry given to you. You are on the wrong side of the coin. As soon as you got your ministry and before you could digest (understood) it, the comment you made reflects how are intentions between commitments and your dirty political image.

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  • Dev Sagar, Mangalore

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Dear Mr. G. Bhat, Mangalore - When the earlier govt. has done deliberate wrong things it becomes the duty of the new govt. to rectify those serious errors. One cannot justify saffronization of text books in a secular country. Rest everything comes next.

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  • Prem Colaco, Sakleshpur/Muscat

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Its because of our Good Education we received then,we comment on this page :)
    Leave the Ministers actions..he will proove his position & there are people to judge him later.
    India is a country with many religions..this should not be the debate to divide good Governance!
    LETS BE FAIR..EVERY COMMUNITY HAS CONTRIBUTED TOWARDS EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
    A NEUTRAL APPROACH ON TEXT BOOK "CONTENTS" IS ALWAYS WELCOME.

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  • Aloka Nath, Bengaluru

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Dear Mr KRPrabhu, Mangalore/Bengalur
    The following is one of many instances for Safron example.
    An instance from the class VIII Hindi textbook refers to a lesson on 'Punyakoti' where a tiger takes an oath saying that "consumption of cow's meat is a bad thought henceforth, I will not eat cow's meat", whereas the original Kannada version mentions no such oath.

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  • Peter Pereira, Pune

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Mr. G. Bhat, Mangalore, did you put forward these suggestions to our previous govt. which had a humiliating defeat due to their foolish idea of saffronization ? everything

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  • vinay, mangalore

    Tue, May 21 2013

    This time I too voted for Mr. Lobo considering he is a better candidate than Mr. Bhat. If we ed Congress govt, it doesnt mean that, they have to follow the same footsteps of BJP. We want development. Thats why our friend Mr. G Bhat gave some suggestion. Why you guys are always bringing BJP into the news?

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  • Maxim Mathias, Shirva, Dubai

    Tue, May 21 2013

    All indians love indian culture.If there is Mahabharatha, Ramayana, Satya Harischandra or Shakunthala are in text books then nothing wrong in this. For vote bank politics the name saffronization appeared. BJP or its father RSS are responsible for this.

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  • Charles D'Mello, Pangala

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Cover can be of saffron colour, but the contents please.

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  • G Bhat, M'Lore

    Tue, May 21 2013

    The pain here is these people are more interested in undoing things done by previous govt and not really interested in improving our education system. Why dont they look into the below issues in our education system.
    1.Rural pupils should get all their rights of education equal to urban children.
    2.Schools shall be governed by the government directly and minimum facility and teaching staff shall be ensured in all schools.
    3.BPL children should get free education and meal in all schools.Government should continue previous govt schemes.
    4.School children up to 10th std should get free bus passes.

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  • shahnawaz kukkikatte, dubai/udupi

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Mr Prabhu,

    I agree with you and when we were small we had secular credentials in our text books and we used to read the biography of great reformers like Vivekananda, Sankar charya, Madhwacharya, Ramanujacharya, Jainsm Buddhism, greater religious founders like Mohamed and Islam, Jesus and Christianity, Mahaveer and Jainism Guru Nanak and Sikhism, But now all these are matters of past and BJP backed by RSS have d all above personalities and retained only which suits them like Manuvaad. They have Godified Nathuram Godse and Vir Sarvarkar...They are into the exercise of poisoning the minds of young kids and spreading hate and venom on other communities. For them Indian means Hindu and no muslim or christian is Indian. For them Brahman is Gods avatar and all other varnas are born to serve brahmins and objects of ownership by manuvadis..... Now tide has changed and you cant swim against the tide...We need far more secular society than what we see today. We should teach our children to respect other religions and their places of worships..We shud teach them to spread love and peace and not hate and devision...RSS cant be called as patriotic or nationalist organisaton who have been implicated in bomb and killings of others in cases like masjid, dargah bombings, samjautha bombings. Can any organisation be called as patriotic if it kills its own citizens from other faiths just because they dont follow in what it believes in....United we stand and devided we fall...We have seen enough hate, devisions in our society.. We must stop further devison and hate...should we need to achieve peace and prosperity. No social justice means no peace.. Our books should preach social justice and equality of birth and equality of law and equality of status. Nothing more and nothing less. We should speak the truth in our histroy books. Dont preach that Taj Mahal was built by Ranapratap singh as Tejomahalaya and Shahjan destroyed it and built Tajmahal in its place in memory of his wife.

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  • Chetan, Bangalore

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Under the previous regime there had been organized efforts to vitiate the young minds of the students with fascist ideas by twisting historical facts and giving one-sided picture of several things. Several Secular thinking personalities and organizations had put up a fight against this move.
    The statement of the education minister who wants to purify the text books is a welcome step.
    But it should be acknowledged that in the last few years the initial damage has been done.
    I only hope that the minister keeps to his word and not buckle under any pressure from any quarter.

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  • sathish.jm, kumpla/Dubai

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Very cheap statement by the minister... Its Ok If you have used this word 'saffron' for your vote bank. But now focus on timely delivery of text books and importantly please stop 'commercialization' of education.

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  • KRPrabhu, Mangalore/Bengalur

    Tue, May 21 2013

    What is kesarikaran or saffronization of text books?
    We have grown up with learning our great Hindu epics liks Ramayana,mahabharatha,dwaitha, adwaitha pantha,MBhagawan Mahaveeras life and teachings,Great Gautham Buddhs life and teachings,Life and teachings of Sree Ramakrishna,Swami Vivekanand'Gandhijis life and teachings,Nehrus life and freedon struggle,like wise many freedom fighters who are majority either brahmins or upper castes.Only Jagath Guru Sree Krishna is from Yadavas a dalith.Nowhere the conept of kesarikaran or saffronisation had come in the way.Even we learnt Jesus life and teachings,Pigambar' Mohammads teachings and many like etc., got from text books only.In our village though in earlier days most people were uneducated but fully conversant with storeys from Mahabharath,Ramayana etc., through viwing Yakshagana folk art populour in our coastal belt.This art is not confined to only Hindus.Many from other religion also shown interest in it.Were those days are influenced by saffronization or Kesarikaran?

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  • Suraj R, Bangalore

    Tue, May 21 2013

    OUR NATIONAL FLAG HAS SAFFRON COLOUR

    and guys, only colour has been removed but the contents in the books are still the same! removing just a colour will not add anything to your knowledge...

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  • Roshan Lobo, Mangalore

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Suraj R, Bangalore

    You don't understand what education Minister talking about..Better to go to school again !!

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  • Suraj r, Bangalore

    Tue, May 21 2013

    I don't see any words related to revising the contents in the books!

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  • Pradeep Kumar, Mangalore/ Bangalore

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Effects of reservation. our education minister dont know what to do. there are lot of things to do than changing the color of text books.. please give more importance to syllabus, Please Include Success stories of Swami Vivekananda, Abdul Kalam, Steve Jobs.... how they came up in life... it should motivate the students to achieve their goals.

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Katapadi/Bangalore

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Good to know from the new Education Minister assuring no more saffronization of text books in the school.Let us not pollute the tender and young hearts of children in the school with religion.Our duty is to develop them acdamically with right knowledge useful to build a better future and make them respected citizens.Hope,the new government will scrap any policies of the earlier government which is dangerous.Thanq.

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  • Gabriel Francis, Mangalore

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Saffron is just like any other color in electromagnetic spectrum. It appeals to our senses ... Giving extra meaning n weightage to saffron color made things worse.

    On a serious note, saffronization of text books must be stopped. Infact all religious bias must be stopped. a new born baby all fine, but once starts learning with bias from elementary level, their future too gets biased towards one side and hold strong views that are not healthy for the society. Text books must be made objective oriented and also more of learning the right stuff at tender age. A holistic n universal approach is welcome step in moving in right direction in education field. One could introduce " Values and Ethics " course with varying depth depending on mental maturity of students could be in school/college. This course which could be an abstraction of ideas from all spheres of human knowledge/experience will help students to respect n value each other as living species. Respect for nature, birds, animals etc also is important. Those who are obsessed with religion n culture must be made to think with a hawk-eye and broader approach. Being moderate is important than being extremist in accepting ideologies.

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  • Roshan -, Udupi.

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Well, it is a good start from congress Education minister.
    Our present Generations is Brain washed in such a way, that they can not think by themselves, they just follow what others will say...

    In our Indian flag we have Saffron color & we define it as "courage and sacrifice,unity and the urge to serve the society". but when it comes in text books why the view change towards religion...!!! here also we can think same like courage & power, unity..
    I am not against to the ministers action...(I like to get more & more comments on my view. please...)

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  • vinay, mangalore

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Good move...
    But please also induct Corruption of both Central and state Govt made so that our next generation knows how good our politicians are!!!

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  • S.M. Nawaz Kukkikatte, udupi

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Dear Rathnakar sir ji,
    we need action on the "statement". Most of ministers statments not valid up to they dont take any reaction.

    Our Ex chaddi education minister Mr. vishwanath kageri openly did the action on change the some text books in to safronist just beacuase theirs one of the part of "hindutwa agenda"

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  • shahnawaz kukkikatte, dubai/udupi

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Please stop brahmin supremacy and manuvad in the text books.
    Teach everybody is equal in they eyes of creator. Man can attain name and fame and moksha by karma and not janma. Get rid of social evils like dowry, female foeticide, alcoholism, varna system, brahmin hegemony...etc..ect

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  • praveen, mangalore

    Tue, May 21 2013

    True! parents are really matured enough to topple the BJP regime

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  • Stany D'sa, Balehonnur/Dubai

    Tue, May 21 2013

    I salute Mr.Kimmane Ratnakar. Let us not waste time in politicizing the education. Education is knowledge and its values are to be adopted in our life and in social welfare of the society. The books must remain as teachers of wisdom and the time has come to keep it safe from communal agendas.

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  • AV, Mangalore/Doha

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Ha ha... Some people are still burning and cannot digest failure and defeat. They are still trying to justify but all in vain. Another famous saying that i recalled "Empty vessel makes more noise"!!. If the opposition was in power the comments would be totally different. We the people of india are not stupid and hence the fitting answer in this terms elections. The previous government tried to link religion, caste, temple, jobs, education etc etc with politics reducing the once peaceful india to a country of internal hate, jealousy, domination, splitting on relegious grounds, female torture etc. Education is the most important weapon to build a child's successful future. Lets hope we end up with knowledgable stuff in the books rather than tales and stories with a self centred motive to gain more votes.

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  • Wilfy, Mangalore/UAE

    Tue, May 21 2013

    VERY GOOD MOVE SIR, WE SALUTE YOU. EDUCATION IS THE FOUNDATION BLOCK FOR ANY SECTOR, THE BJP EVEN DID NOT SPARE IT AND COMMUNALISED IT. KARNATAKA WILL PROGRESS NOW ONWARDS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS UNDER THE ABLE LEADERSHIP OF SHREEMAN SIDDHARAMAIHAJI.

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  • Irshad Shaikh, Udupi/Dubai

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Very good move.Things coming back to normal after RSS hardliners rule.

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  • Aloka Nath, Bengaluru

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Good begining Mr. Education minister. The previous regime had tried its best to indoctrinate and safronize the education. They were doing their best to mould the young brains to one particular philosopy. Also Mr minister, please introduce more and more of topic relating to ethics, civics, trafic and moral values in the children. Make the young ones to adopt tolerance but conscience to injustice ...

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  • Valerian Dsouza, Udupi/Mumbai

    Tue, May 21 2013

    " Education is not learning the facts, but the training the minds to think "
    So Social commitment be kept in mind while preparing text books.

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  • R.Bhandarkar, M'Lore

    Tue, May 21 2013

    'Edu' cate means to 'draw out'.
    'Drawing' out the best which is already inherent in children, chissel it and make a perfect model.It's towards this point that all our efforts must be channelized.Everything else is secondary.

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  • Dinesh Poojary, Kundapura/Bengaluru

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Ha ha he is under blind impression. Texts books were same as they were before 5 years back.

    Since he got a minister chair, he feels like he is not on earth. This kind of foolish statements are to confuse people. But people and parents are aware and matured enough.

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  • Jacobneslson, Bejai,Mangalore

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Please read in between lines.

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  • Joslynn Rooswelt, Mangalore

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Hahahaha Mr poojary.... kumbala kaayi kalla andhre neevu yaake hegalu mutti nodudhu marayre....

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  • amar alva, kallamundkur

    Tue, May 21 2013

    people are mature, so they voted for de-saffronization.

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  • Jacobnelson,, Bejai,Mangalore

    Wed, May 22 2013

    like we put de-clorine in fish tank to protect Fish!!!

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mangalore/Mapusa/Mumbai

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Why do you get so many negative votes.....

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  • Ronald Aloysius,, Bejai,Mangalore

    Wed, May 22 2013

    Because always 'negative' response neither good or bad remains the same...

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  • Rajesh Gonsalves, Mangalore

    Tue, May 21 2013

    Joslynn, Mr Poojary is yet to come into the terms of election results. He has even forgotten that his 'saffron' party is not even the main opposition now.

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