Union School Education and Literacy Ministry Secretary Anil Swarup today denied having any knowledge about any proposal to delete Rabindranath Tagore's writing and works of other personalities from NCERT text books.
"I don't think there is any such proposal," Swarup told reporters to a question on reports in a section on the media of a five-page list of recommendations which included removal of a poem by Punjabi poet Pash, a couplet by Mirza Ghalib, extracts from M.F. Husain's autobiography and the thoughts of Rabindranath Tagore.
"These reports keep coming," he said adding "You and I can't stop discussions," when told the issue had also come up in Parliament yesterday.
To a question if he had seen any such recommendation, Swarup replied, "I don't recall having seen it.
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