Times of India
AsiaPac · 47 mins ago
SC row fallout: From ‘corruption’ to PILs — NCERT rewrites judiciary lesson
Photo credit: IANSNEW DELHI: Put on the back foot by a Supreme Court intervention, NCERT on Tuesday has released the revised Part 2 of its Class 8 Social Science textbook with the controversial chapter on judiciary stripped of its earlier critical framing and recast as a more conventional civics lesson on justice, constitutional remedies, courts, tribunals and dispute resolution.The biggest shift is in Chapter 4, The Role of the Judiciary in Our Society. The revised version drops the earlier section on “corruption in judiciary” and the discussion on judicial backlog as a key challenge. Instead, it now opens with broader questions: “What is the concept of justice?” , “Why is it important for a just and harmonious society?” , “What is the structure and role of the judiciary in India?” and “W
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