Last year, chapters on Darwin's theory of evolution were removed from class 10 biology textbooks. The NCERT had said the changes were being made to reduce the content load on students, in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last year, chapters on Darwin’s theory of evolution were removed from class 10 biology textbooks. Baffled over the move, more than 4,000 researchers have signed an open letter asking officials to restore the material.
Researchers have signalled that the government’s move is a growing embrace of pseudoscience by Indian officials.
Mythili Ramchand, a science-teacher trainer at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai told the journal that “everything related to water, air pollution, resource management has been removed.” “I don’t see how conservation of water, and air [pollution], is not relevant for us. It’s all the more so currently,” she said.