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Taking beardown objection to glaring errors successful recently introduced schoolhouse textbooks for Classes I to VIII, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi connected Wednesday (June 17, 2026) directed strict enactment against officials liable for arsenic galore arsenic 1,678 mistakes.
The magnitude of the errors has raised superior concerns among teachers and parents, who criticised the evident lackadaisical mode successful which the books were prepared.
Chairing a high-level gathering astatine the State Secretariat, attended by School and Mass Education Minister Nityanand Gond and Chief Secretary Anu Garg, the Chief Minister ordered contiguous corrective measures.
A three-member high-level committee, headed by the Development Commissioner, has been instructed to probe the substance and taxable its study wrong 7 days, pursuing which stringent enactment volition beryllium taken against the officials oregon institutions recovered responsible.
The textbooks were prepared by the Directorate of Teacher Education and the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) arsenic portion of the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
With schools acceptable to reopen connected June 18, teachers reviewing the recently supplied books flagged respective glaring errors. For instance, Isaac Newton has been described arsenic the “greatest pilot”, portion a photograph of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly has been misidentified arsenic that of the Odisha Legislative Assembly.
Similarly, the Niyamgiri Hill scope successful Odisha has been incorrectly identified arsenic being located successful Jharkhand, and an representation of the Hampi analyzable has been wrongly labelled arsenic the Konark temple. The books are besides riddled with galore grammatical and spelling mistakes, galore of which tin beryllium easy spotted adjacent by students.
According to Basudev Bhat, president of the Odisha Abhibhabak Sangh (Odisha Parents’ Federation), supplying corrected textbooks volition instrumentality clip arsenic it involves revision, printing and redistribution.
“Students from Classes I to VIII are apt to endure for a important portion of the world year, arsenic they whitethorn not person error-free books for the adjacent six to 7 months,” helium said.
