NCERT’s textbook development committee’s member-coordinator, Prof Manju Jain of the Elementary Education department, had this excuse, ‘‘These are preliminary pages, they are not the content of the book... so they are not meant for children. The publication department has put this, the textbook panel deals with the content. I’ll get it checked.’’
The chairperson of advisory committee for textbooks at the primary level, Prof Anita Rampal of Delhi University’s Education department, said,‘‘I have no knowledge of this.’’