India, Feb. 27 -- The NCERT textbook controversy snowballed on Thursday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is learnt to have taken a strong exception to the Class 8 textbook chapter on "Corruption in the Judiciary", which has now banned by the Supreme Court.

Sources said during the last Cabinet meeting at Seva Teerth, Modi sought to know from Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan about the controversy related to the NCERT textbook and asked the concerned to fix the responsibility. "What are we teaching our children? What are we teaching class eight students? Who is monitoring it?" sources said, PM sought to know. On the sidelines of an event at Jamshedpur, Pradhan promised to fix accountability and take action against those involved i...