NCERT is going to start a comprehensive book based upon north-east India

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is going to launch new comprehensive books very first time with the stories based upon the north-east Indian history, culture and war heroes for the better growth and knowledge of the CBSE students.

This proposal came in the discussion when a 20-year-old student from Arunachal Pradesh, Nido Tania, was brutally killed in a racial attack of 2014. After some more similar attacks, this becomes a talking point of the town that these attacks are the result of less information and sensitization about north-east India in the citizens of the country based on other parts.

The book is named as, 'North East India — People, History and Culture', which explains about all the eight states — Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim in great detail and for the first time the freedom fighters from this region can be known to the students deeply.

About all the important movements in history like the 1904 women's struggle in Manipur against the British are written in the books. In the struggle for freedom, North-east states have played a tremendous and immemorial role, which are hidden in the files and old people‘s hearts, but now it will find a place in our history books. This book attempts to capture all the moments in detail.

The NCERT syllabus generally includes such information in the Social Science books but there was no space is allotted for north-east knowledge in such books where every field like history culture and freedom fighters can be explained at one place. This is the basic reason that this book has been designed to explain all the details.

Neeraja Rashmi, head, department of education in social sciences, NCERT  states that "There were incidents of discrimination against students from the north-east and it absolutely felt that it's due to lack of data on the states and its folks. Thus it was set by the government that we must always come back up with comprehensive material of the northeastern part of the country."

Prof Rashmi, one of the participants of this book development team said, “From last year onwards we started performing on this book and till next year around it will be ready to be published. A team of eight individuals belongs or related to the northeast region are worked on this book."

She added, “Another book within the series are going to be published is named as “Women of North East India”. The names of the ladies haven't been set up to now, however, it'll be based upon the ladies making the milestones with their work of the region."

The book is supposed as a supplementary reading for CBSE school students from 9th to 12th std, however, is additionally referred for the CBSE teachers as well.