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The controversy over a Class 8 NCERT Social Sciences chapter on judiciary corruption reached the Supreme Court on Thursday, prompting an apology from the Centre and an assurance of strict action.<\/p>
Appearing before the court, the government said those responsible for the chapter would face consequences and would be permanently excluded from any future work with the Education Ministry.<\/p>
\u201cWe would like to have a deeper probe. As head of the judiciary, it is my duty to ensure accountability; heads must roll. I will not close these proceedings until there is some accountability. We want to know who the people behind this are,” Chief Justice of India Surya Kant said.<\/p>
The strong remarks came as the court pressed for clarity on how the controversial content was included in the textbook.<\/p>
Responding on behalf of the Centre, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the court that the Ministry had taken serious note of the issue and acted swiftly after the objectionable material surfaced.<\/p>
\u201cThe two people involved with this chapter will never be involved with any activity of this ministry in the future,\u201d he told the court.<\/p>
The government\u2019s submission signals that internal accountability measures have begun, even as the Supreme Court indicated it would continue to monitor the matter until responsibility is clearly fixed.<\/p>
NCERT apologises<\/strong><\/p> The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) on\u00a0Wednesday had also apologised for what it termed a \u201cpurely unintentional\u201d inclusion of \u201cinappropriate material\u201d in a Class 8 Social Science textbook and halted its circulation.<\/p> The move follows the court\u2019s strong objections to a chapter that referred to judicial corruption, after which the bench ordered that distribution of the newly released book be stopped.<\/p> In a statement, NCERT said certain \u201cinappropriate textual material\u201d had inadvertently appeared in Chapter 4, The Role of Judiciary in our Society, of the textbook Exploring Society: India and Beyond, Vol II.<\/p> The council added that following observations from the Department of School Education and Literacy under the Ministry of Education, the book\u2019s distribution was immediately placed on hold, and copies were withdrawn from circulation.<\/p> NCERT said the chapter would now be rewritten in consultation with appropriate authorities and reissued from the 2026\u201327 academic session.<\/p> <\/div> NCERT Class 8 textbook controversy, judiciary corruption chapter NCERT, Supreme Court on NCERT book, Centre apology in SC, CJI Surya Kant remarks, heads must roll Supreme Court, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta statement, NCERT Social Sciences book row, Education Ministry action NCERT, Class 8 judiciary chapter issue, Supreme Court accountability probe, NCERT textbook withdrawal case#Centre #apologises #Class #NCERT #judiciary #chapter #CJI #039want #behind0391772088982<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 The controversy over a Class 8 NCERT Social Sciences chapter on judiciary corruption reached the Supreme Court on Thursday, prompting an apology from the Centre and an assurance of strict action. Appearing before the court, the government said those responsible for the chapter would face consequences and would be permanently excluded from any future […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[13148,13143,13149,2297,13134,13146,13147,13135,11175,13140,13139,13136,13145,13132,13144,13131,13138,13142,13137,13141,13133],"class_list":["post-3874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-marketing","tag-039want","tag-apologises","tag-behind039","tag-centre","tag-centre-apology-in-sc","tag-chapter","tag-cji","tag-cji-surya-kant-remarks","tag-class","tag-class-8-judiciary-chapter-issue","tag-education-ministry-action-ncert","tag-heads-must-roll-supreme-court","tag-judiciary","tag-judiciary-corruption-chapter-ncert","tag-ncert","tag-ncert-class-8-textbook-controversy","tag-ncert-social-sciences-book-row","tag-ncert-textbook-withdrawal-case","tag-solicitor-general-tushar-mehta-statement","tag-supreme-court-accountability-probe","tag-supreme-court-on-ncert-book"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}