SHILLONG: In order to dig deep into rampant factual errors in MBoSE textbooks, the Hynniewtrep Youth Council (HYC) demanded the Education Minister, Lahkmen Rymbui to facilitate an enquiry into the matter.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, HYC general secretary, Robert June Kharjahrin said the minister assured to study the report given by the MBoSE and will look into the matter thereafter.
On the other hand, Kharjahrin said the organisation will lodge an FIR or a PIL if the state government did not initiate any probe into the MBoSE errors.
The organisation has demanded an independent enquiry by a magistrate or by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Police Department.
Pointing to the major errors and misleading information printed in MBoSE textbooks, he said, “It is done with criminal conspiracy to defame the prestige of MBoSE and the Education Department of the state.”
The organisation in the letter to Rymbui pointed out that the MBoSE undertook an exercise to review and change the syllabus and textbooks to be prescribed in various schools of the state which are affiliated to it.
“The scale of these errors and misleading information is up to such an extent that we may come to the conclusion that it was done with a conspiracy, ill motive and with a malafide intention to mislead the students, defame and malign the prestige of MBoSE and the Education Department in the state as a whole,” the letter said.