{"id":196303,"date":"2022-07-25T02:09:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T20:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=196303"},"modified":"2022-07-25T02:09:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T20:39:40","slug":"aapsu-lodges-complaint-over-class-3-ncert-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/07\/25\/aapsu-lodges-complaint-over-class-3-ncert-book\/","title":{"rendered":"AAPSU lodges complaint over Class 3 NCERT book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 24 Jul:<\/strong> The All Arunachal Pradesh Students&#8217; Union (AAPSU) has lodged a complaint at the Itanagar police station regarding &#8220;wrong information and provocative&#8221; contents in an NCERT book for Class 3 students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In its complaint letter to the Itanagar PS OC, the AAPSU said that the book, authored by Dr Dhananjoy Joshi and Neelam Jain and published by New Delhi-based Bright Star Books International, states that the languages spoken by the people of Arunachal Pradesh are &#8216;Bengali, Nepali, Hindi and Assamese&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stating that the misinformation has been found in the chapter titled &#8216;States, their capitals and languages spoken&#8217; in the social studies book, the union said that &#8220;none of the languages mentioned in the book are indigenous languages or majorly spoken in the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said that &#8220;it is a blatant and deliberate error committed by the authors in connivance with the publisher, which will spread wrong information about the state and its people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is totally unfounded, farcical and dubious in nature, and a clear intent to hurt the linguistic sentiments of the local indigenous people just to create or promote enmity, ill-will on the basis of language propaganda towards other communities residing in the state as well as in other parts of the country,&#8221; the AAPSU said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The union urged the police to conduct a proper investigation into the matter and strictly deal with the offenders as per the relevant provisions of the law at the earliest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 24 Jul: The All Arunachal Pradesh Students&#8217; Union (AAPSU) has lodged a complaint at the Itanagar police station regarding &#8220;wrong information and provocative&#8221; contents in an NCERT book for Class 3 students. In its complaint letter to the Itanagar PS OC, the AAPSU said that the book, authored by Dr Dhananjoy Joshi and Neelam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-196303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}