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We Should Have A Chapter At Least!

All and any kinds of references to Telangana are going to be removed from the curriculum of AP from the coming academic year.

The government has also given instructions that any specific reference to Telangana and its statehood movement in particular must be eliminated.

As the entire syllabus right from Class 1 to Class 10 is being revised, the focus will be on teaching students about the culture and heritage of Seemandhra to instill a sense of pride about their state, officials said.

And the emphasis will be on “cleansing history by eliminating unpleasant memories which have hurt the sentiments of the people of Seemandhra,“ they said.

“When Telangana is not mentioning Andhra Pradesh in their syllabus, what is the need for us to mention Telangana in ours?” reasoned AP education minister Ganta Srinivas Rao.

“What is the point in adding details in the curriculum which our students are not required to learn?”, the minister said.

The course correction includes changing the number of districts from 23 in undivided Andhra Pradesh to 13 in the truncated state, and replacing the reference to Hyderabad with Vijayawada.

But, there will no details on the Telangana movement and how it all led to the bifurcation of the united AP. Alongside this; efforts are also on to restructure the college curriculum.

A high level committee constituted by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu in January wrote to six major universities in the state, asking them to propose a new syllabus.

Sources said the syllabus for all the degree and post-graduation courses would be revised. What Ganta Srinivasa Rao said is absolutely right. However, there must be at least one chapter in AP syllabus on the T-agitation.

It will safeguard Andhraites in future from opportunistic politicians taking advantage of foolish people to come to power, betraying in the process the hands that pulled them out of poverty. Future generations of Andhra people should be made aware of who the ‘Jinnah of United Andhra Pradesh’ was! It will help prevent the rise of another Jinnah.

Written By By Kiran Sharma

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