Bhubaneswar, July 1 -- The Mohan Majhi government on Wednesday announced that it will withdraw the flawed editions, publish corrected versions and distribute fresh copies of Odisha school textbooks to students following the backlash over factual and printing errors.

"Corrected and revised textbooks will be available to students shortly. Experts and educationists are reviewing all the errors. Once corrections are complete, the revised textbooks will also be uploaded on the department's [School and Mass Education Department] official website so that students and teachers can easily access them," said school and mass education secretary N Thirumala Naik.

The decision comes after a series of errors in textbooks for Classes I to VIII trigger...