PM orders accountability over NCERT judiciary ‘corruption’ content; Education Minister vows action
The Hindu
PM Modi demands accountability over NCERT's controversial judiciary content as Education Minister promises action and inquiry into the matter.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told authorities to fix accountability with regard to the row over the National Council of Educational Research and Training’s (NCERT) Class 8 Social Science textbook chapter on “corruption” in judiciary. According to government sources, the Prime Minister has directed that the matter be looked into in detail and accountability be fixed.
Meanwhile, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday (February 26, 2026) said that the government will conduct an inquiry into the matter, and added that responsibility for this will be fixed and action will be taken against officials responsible for it.
Also, the Education Ministry has written to the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry and the Electronics and Information Technology Ministry (MeitY) to stop dissemination of the controversial textbook via digital platforms and media.
The section in question in the new Social Science textbook created outrage this week, even as a Bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant registered a suo motu case over it calling it a “selective reference”, with the NCERT withdrawing the textbook from distribution within a day of releasing it.
Hours after the Supreme Court of India took up the case, the NCERT issued a statement apologising and regretting the “inappropriate textual material” and “error in judgement” that had “crept into” the chapter.
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