RTI Act blacked out in Rajasthan school books

May 18, 2016 10:29

The Right To Information Act has become the latest casualty of the Rajasthan government's move to revise syllabus.

A page in Rajasthan school textbooks has been removed following the revision, The Indian Express reported on Wednesday.

This comes after references to India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and other freedom fighters were axed from the school History curriculum.

As per the report, RTI Act was prominently highlighted on page 105 in chapter 12 of the Social Science textbook for Class VIII in state schools. However, the same has now been removed in the "restructured" textbook.

Apart from talking about the RTI Act, the page also detailed the peoples movement that led to the framing of the Act.

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