Bangladesh English Textbooks Changes: Many modifications are being seen in Bangladesh since Sheikh Hasina left the nation. Meanwhile, information is coming that main modifications are going to be made in the Bengali and English textbooks for major and center instructional establishments underneath the Yunus authorities, which will additionally embrace removing of some content material associated to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Sources in the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCBT) mentioned that the content material of the student-led public revolt can be included in the Bengali and English textbooks of lessons 5 to 9. Six texts and prose on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be faraway from the English textbook of lessons six to 9, whereas 4 articles on the July Movement will be added.
All content material will be eliminated on Teatoomir
Three prose and poems on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman can be faraway from Bengali textbooks of lessons 6 and seven and 4 articles on July textbook can be added in their place. All content material on Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani and Titumir will be faraway from Class 6 Bengali textbook. It has additionally been determined that 5 contents of Celina Hussain, two contents of Professor Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, one content material every of Syed Shamsul Haq, Rokonuzzaman Khan, Nirmalendu Goon and former bureaucrat Kamal Chaudhary will be eliminated.
Argument of interim authorities
NCTB (National Curriculum and Textbook Board) Chairman Professor AKM Riazul Hasan mentioned, “Exaggerative content about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is being removed from the textbooks. One leader, one country – it is not like that. There were other leaders too, like Sher-e-Bangla AKA Fazlul Haq, Maulana Bhashani, and Ziaur Rehman, and there is no chance of underestimating their contributions.”
He mentioned that some of the content material about Bangabandhu being eliminated, similar to the public revolt of 1969, the elections of 1970 and the March 7 speech in 1971, is nonetheless current in many textbooks. Regarding the removing of content material on Maulana Bhashani, he mentioned, “It may have been removed from one textbook, but it was included in another.” “Another article on him has been added in a separate textbook,” he mentioned about the removing of materials on Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain from the Class 7 textbook.
Content faraway from textbooks
Shamsur Rahman’s poem: “Raudra Rekhe Joy”
Poem by Lutfor Rahman: “February’s Anthem”
Selina Hussain’s Short Story: “Opekha”
Article based mostly on Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani and Titumir.
Works of outstanding writers like Zafar Iqbal, Syed Shamsul Haq, Nirmalendu Goon, and Kamal Chaudhary
poems
Kazi Nazrul Islam’s “Aaj Srishti Shukher Ulashe”
Syed Shamsul Haq’s “Amar Porichoy”
Nirmalendu Goon’s “Swadhinota e Shobdoti Kibhabe Amader Holo”
Kamal Chaudhary’s “Shahoshi Jononi Amar”
Rabindranath Tagore’s “Dena Pauna,” and Humayun Ahmed’s “Niyoti”
New content material added
Articles based mostly on the July Uprising similar to “Amra Tomader Bhulbo Na”
“Sobar Ami Chhatro” and “Language of Satire and Protest”
Jalapuri o Kathurer Golpo, Nolok, and Kumro o Pakhir Kotha
Themes based mostly on procession and graffiti artwork
The prose based mostly on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, describing him as “the best Bengali of 1,000 years” and “the undisputed leader of the liberation struggle”, was eliminated. The time period “Father of the Nation” was eliminated in favor of the idea of “Founding Father”.
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