Maharashtra to remove blank pages from Balbharati textbooks

The inaugural of adding blank pages to the textbooks was announced successful 2023 by the erstwhile schoolhouse acquisition curate Deepak Kesarkar. This was applicable to lone those textbooks prepared for free-of-cost organisation successful authorities government-run schools crossed Maharashtra.

The thought past was reducing the value of schoolhouse bags by providing blank pages successful textbooks, arsenic an alternate to notebooks truthful that students volition not person to transportation notebooks separately. The decision, however, was met with terrible disapproval from crossed assorted parts of the authorities arsenic teachers, educationists and adjacent parents noted that adding a fewer blank pages successful textbooks aft each section cannot truly beryllium an alternate for notebooks.

Noting nationalist sentiments successful this regard, the existent schoolhouse acquisition curate Dada Bhuse has taken the determination to retreat the initiative. Reasoning the decision, the GR stated that the inaugural of including blank pages to textbooks was implemented past twelvemonth connected aviator ground with an purpose to trim value of schoolhouse bags. The thought was that students would nary longer person to transportation notebooks arsenic they could instrumentality notes connected the blank pages fixed successful textbooks. “But a reappraisal of the inaugural shows that the blank pages person not been utilized optimally, arsenic expected. Further, arsenic students proceed to transportation notebooks, it has not helped successful reducing value of schoolbags,” stated the GR.

Welcoming the caller decision, Vijay Kombe, authorities president for Maharashtra State Primary Teachers’ Association, said, “Education experts and the Maharashtra State Primary Teachers’ Committee person consistently opposed the summation of blank pages successful the integrated textbook scheme. The government’s determination to omit the pages is welcome. Along with this, the integrated textbooks should beryllium discontinued and subject-wise abstracted textbooks and autarkic self-study books for each subjects should beryllium provided to the students escaped of cost.”