Bhubaneswar, June 17 -- Alleging that newly introduced school textbooks have distorted Odisha's geography, history and cultural heritage, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Tuesday accused the BJP government of compromising educational standards and misleading students through what it described as glaring errors in Odia-medium textbooks.
Addressing a press conference here, BJD spokesperson and media coordinator Dr. Lenin Mohanty claimed that textbooks prepared under the National Education Policy (NEP)-2020 framework and published by the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) contained numerous factual, geographical, historical and linguistic inaccuracies.
Among the examples cited by the party were the alleged use of a photog...