Govt plans to modify textbook content to check crime rate
24 July 2014 6:44 AM IST
In order to check crime rate, home minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said one of the proposals is to modify the contents of text books to inject human values into children.
‘There is also a need to create awareness and to bring perceptional change among people so as to enhance commitment towards life values and check vulgarity. ...one of the proposal is to change the content of text books so that children can be informed about human values and life values,’ Singh said while replying to supplementary questions in Rajya Sabha.
He was responding to questions on steps being taken by government to check increasing crime rate.
To a specific query regarding vulgarity in media and public places, the home ministry said the ‘media is fourth pillar of democracy...there are provisions for self regulation and the concerned department issues advisory from time to time’.
‘There is also a need to create awareness and to bring perceptional change among people so as to enhance commitment towards life values and check vulgarity. ...one of the proposal is to change the content of text books so that children can be informed about human values and life values,’ Singh said while replying to supplementary questions in Rajya Sabha.
He was responding to questions on steps being taken by government to check increasing crime rate.
To a specific query regarding vulgarity in media and public places, the home ministry said the ‘media is fourth pillar of democracy...there are provisions for self regulation and the concerned department issues advisory from time to time’.
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