IIOJK education department teaching students laughable blunder
Srinagar: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the Board of School Education has invited a mockery for a copy-paste change in a Class 10 textbook.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the 10 grade textbook titled ‘Disaster Management and Road Safety Education’ has come under scanner after a video exposes on how the BOSE’s textbook division has replaced the word ‘State’ with UT after IIOJK was illegally downgraded to a Union Territory in 2019.
The textbook is also available on the official website of education department for reading by students for the current academic session, has brought the lackadaisical attitude of the BOSE’s academic division to the fore.
This comes amid a crisis over acute shortage of textbooks ahead of the reopening of the schools in Kashmir after winter vacations.
However, much to the shock and surprise of students and teachers, the changed word ‘state’ includes the ‘state’ related to ‘state of affairs’ rather than State as an administrative entity. The glaring mistake has not been pointed out at only one spot but at three spots in two pages-Pages 29 and 30 of the textbook.
As the issue came to limelight, the observers criticized the BOSE as well as the editorial board of the textbook in question for gross negligence.
Such glaring mistakes have come to fore at a time when the JKBOSE has issued strict directions to all the private schools to adopt Board prescribed textbooks or face de-recognition.
In the unit IV of the textbook, on its Page 29 has a topic on Fainting and Loosing Conscience. In this topic, the contents of the book read that the unconsciousness and fainting is a UT of Human Body. In this line the editorial board has replaced the state of human body with UT of human Body.
On the next page, the book reads that this UT (which has been replaced with instead of state) can lead to death of the victim if no immediate first aid is provided. In the next line, the UT word instead of state is again repeated as well.
Sharply reacting to the contents, the observers said that JKBOSE immediately needs ‘first aid’ to avoid such blunders.
Senior PDP leader Naeem Akhtar expressed concern over the issue saying that the State is downgraded to UT and so is English language in our books prescribed for schools. “It’s a Tragicomedy that we are living,” he wrote on X.
