Portrayal of A.P. without capital in textbook stirs a hornet’s nest

Teachers’ unions, opposition leaders up in arms

A map of India with the list of Indian States, Union Territories and capitals, barring that of Andhra Pradesh, printed at the end of a Telugu medium textbook for Environmental Studies of Class 4, by the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) has stirred up a hornet’s nest, with leaders of political parties and teacher unions up in arms against it.

The SCERT printed bilingual textbooks for easy transition of students from Telugu to English as a medium of education in schools.

In the Environmental Studies textbook (Telugu medium- “Mana Prapancham’) for the academic year 2020-21, a map given at the end of the book, shows the space meant to mention the capital of Andhra Pradesh state as blank.