A non-vegetarian meal is enough to turn on the devil in you. At least that is the proposition of a book published by S. Chand Group for Class VI students. The book titled ‘New Healthway – Health, Hygiene, Physiology, Safety, Sex Education, Games and Exercises’ classifies non-vegetarians as “cheats and liars” and also violent. The second [...]

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A non-vegetarian meal is enough to turn on the devil in you. At least that is the proposition of a book published by S. Chand Group for Class VI students. The book titled ‘New Healthway – Health, Hygiene, Physiology, Safety, Sex Education, Games and Exercises’ classifies non-vegetarians as “cheats and liars” and also violent.

The textbook for kids talks about non-vegetarianism in a negative way

The second paragraph on page 56 reads: “They easily cheat, tell lies, they forget promises, they are dishonest and tell bad words, steal, fight and turn to violence and commit sex crimes.”

Authored by David S. Poddar, the book aims to establish that vegetarians live longer. The paragraph is part of chapter nine titled ‘Do we need flesh food?’  It says the taste of a non-vegetarian dish comes from waste matter. No official from S. Chand was available for comment on Friday

Though CBSE or NCERT does not recommend any private publisher’s books, schools are free to prescribe any book for students till Class VIII. But teachers are appalled.

“Since there is no check on publishers, they end up promoting their own ideology and political agenda through such books,” said D.K. Bedi, principal, Apeejay School, Pitampura.

“We have a proper panel of teachers who go through the books before selecting them. A book with such a content can never be taught in the classrooms,” said D. R. Saini, principal, DPS R.K. Puram.

“CBSE recommends NCERT textbooks for students of Class IX onwards. We do not issue any directions or suggest books for classes lower than that, but, we do expect our affiliated schools to follow the NCERT curriculum.

I have asked the CBSE officer concerned to find out what has happened and why some schools were found to follow this book,” said CBSE chairperson Vineet Joshi.

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